George McGovern quote: "The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain."

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
GEORGE MCGOVERN

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, t...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

I'm a movie buff.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war ...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you h...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in V...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

The Establishment center ... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

The longer the title, the less important the job.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe....
GEORGE MCGOVERN

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two confli...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anyt...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
GEORGE MCGOVERN

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was al...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the ...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now ...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civilit...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothin...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the De...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful th...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral ...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggre...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free
GEORGE MCGOVERN

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country dee...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

“I hope Howard Dean is like George McGovern. I thought I was a pretty good candidate in 1972. …I...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

We remember his sturdy idealism and his devotion to public good.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

that you only have a realistic hope of ending poverty if you can somehow curb the destruction and wa...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

I'd like to see a working partnership between people your age and people my age,
GEORGE MCGOVERN

There'll be no criticism of anybody that wants to jump out. I'll take you close to the field. All yo...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

It is appropriate to meet in a church because today we're talking about what is one of the clearly m...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front; and t...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunist...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can s...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and th...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear ...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires i...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

I met my wife in South Dakota.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and y...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

One Bright Shining Moment
GEORGE MCGOVERN

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
GEORGE S. MCGOVERN

I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.
JIM MCGOVERN

I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting to get the Administration ...
JIM MCGOVERN

In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdr...
JIM MCGOVERN

A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives ...
JIM MCGOVERN

Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate ch...
JIM MCGOVERN

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.
WILLIAM MCGOVERN

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say ...
WILLIAM MCGOVERN

The fact that it had never been done before made it even more irresistible.
WILLIAM MCGOVERN

Any boy can get a girl, it takes a man to keep one.
JESS MCGOVERN

In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're ...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not th...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, ...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

The defendant now knows he was a hair's breadth away (from) being convicted of several violent crime...
MICHAEL MCGOVERN

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

Whether these decrees were signed by the president and absolutely contradictory or not, either way i...
MIKE MCGOVERN

The president says we are addicted to oil. He's quite right. We've reached the first resource-war. I...
RAY MCGOVERN

That's a loophole you can drive a Mack truck through.
RAY MCGOVERN

The mutiny is [probably] seen as evidence of the fact that it's a very precarious situation still.
MIKE MCGOVERN

It's certainly helpful for the commuters, but it comes at the expense of people trying to use their ...
CHRIS MCGOVERN

Neither side admits the allegations in the other's lawsuit, but both parties are committed to puttin...
JOHN MCGOVERN

Most of these women are returning to work anywhere from six to 12 weeks after giving birth. There is...
PAT MCGOVERN

There is a real risk of devaluation in Venezuela. We've seen significant outflows from Brazil. ... S...
DAN MCGOVERN

Perhaps they'll sharpen their pencil a little bit.
CHRIS MCGOVERN

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

With increasing population density, wealth in people becomes problematic. Land is scarce, water is s...
MIKE MCGOVERN

after the flood comes the whitewash.
JAMES MCGOVERN

After that, a strange thing happened: Amy couldn't stop her expectations from rising. She imagined h...
CAMMIE MCGOVERN

According to Sarah, who had gone two years ago, prom was famous for being an overpriced disappointme...
CAMMIE MCGOVERN

He had no idea how wonderful he was. How his hands were so beautiful she could hardly look at them. ...
CAMMIE MCGOVERN

We lack rituals in this modern world.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

I do not wish to be associated, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture.
RAY MCGOVERN

I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

It's like lawn darts out there. It almost seems like you can birdie every hole. I don't know if I'll...
JIM MCGOVERN

The closest post office we have for him is the New Rochelle office. We certainly sympathize with him...
PAT MCGOVERN

He's the one who's been advocating a move toward a currency board, concentrating foreign exchange ea...
DAN MCGOVERN

[This] has really helped a great deal, ... It has captured some of the problem with short selling, w...
DAN MCGOVERN

by year's end, these questions will be resolved and interest rates will come down.
DAN MCGOVERN

It's quite rewarding to think the money is going to investors. The disappointing aspect to me is tha...
FRANCIS MCGOVERN

It was a challenge to get to 46 percent, a big-time challenge.
FRANCIS MCGOVERN

The process of designing a distribution plan in connection with the global research analyst settleme...
FRANCIS MCGOVERN

Dear Matthew-
There's one more thing I didn't get to tell you that night in my bedroom. Here it...
CAMMIE MCGOVERN

I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaw...
CAMMIE MCGOVERN

Joe Moakley not only taught us how to live, he taught us how to die, with great class and great dign...
JAMES MCGOVERN

[Moakley was working] up until the very end, ... up until he couldn't do it anymore.
JAMES MCGOVERN

The world is gonna miss Joe Moakley; I already do,
JAMES MCGOVERN

Don't go home and tell your constituents you did anything for them. In truth, you haven't,
JAMES MCGOVERN

This bill is not about fixing the Endangered Species Act, it's about gutting it,
JAMES MCGOVERN

It's wonderful that so many people are here to offer their help and love, ... It not only says a lot...
JAMES MCGOVERN

After the flood comes the whitewash, ... The job of this Congress is not to run interference for the...
JAMES MCGOVERN

[Democrats contended that Republicans cannot be trusted to run an impartial investigation.] After th...
JAMES MCGOVERN

The grandstand structures were also in a similar deteriorated condition due to age,
JAMES MCGOVERN

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career ...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certain...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them ...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but i...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

Well, when I moved to England I was making a lot of personal adjustments because I was getting marri...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and final...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

It's very tough when two creative people are together.
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a wa...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN

Breast-feeding babies digest food more rapidly and need to feed more frequently. That's tiring for m...
PAT MCGOVERN

I didn't know to be as terrified as I should have been, ... I was sort of sent to the edge and told ...
MAUREEN MCGOVERN

Of course I'm glad I've become known for other things, but I'm not ashamed of my past. I look back o...
MAUREEN MCGOVERN

To me, singing is basically a form of prayer. I get this great joy when I'm singing - whatever I'm s...
MAUREEN MCGOVERN

For years, people kept saying to me, 'You have such a big voice, you should go into theater.' I was ...
MAUREEN MCGOVERN

The gypsy in my soul is living on the road again, ... When I first started my career, I was on the r...
MAUREEN MCGOVERN

This was the ethos of the intelligence analysis directorate during most of the 27 years I spent ther...
RAY MCGOVERN

His great trick was making the game simple, supplying players with the confidence and self-belief of...
JOHN MCGOVERN

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE

My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...
GEORGE TAKEI

Every historian discloses a new horizon.
GEORGE SAND

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
GEORGE SAND

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradicti...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they...
GEORGE CARLIN

I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. ...
GEORGE TAKEI

'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 196...
GEORGE LOIS

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
GEORGE CARLIN

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
GEORGE ELIOT

Electricity is really just organized lightning.
GEORGE CARLIN

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNS

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
GEORGE BURNS

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could ...
GEORGE BURNS

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE BURNS

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
GEORGE BURNS

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and ...
GEORGE BURNS

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...
GEORGE BURNS

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE BURNS

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on ...
GEORGE BURNS

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
GEORGE CARLIN

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right...
GEORGE LUCAS

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within you...
GEORGE STEVENS

The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The...
GEORGE LUCAS

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship mu...
GEORGE AYITTEY

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past,...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gat...
WALLY GEORGE

I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
WALLY GEORGE

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, ma...
GEORGE GROSZ

I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
INARA GEORGE

I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that'...
INARA GEORGE

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A l...
INARA GEORGE

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.
GEORGE OSBORNE

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political iss...
GEORGE ORWELL

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The status quo sucks.
GEORGE CARLIN

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
GEORGE SEWELL

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a r...
GEORGE ORWELL

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirte...
GEORGE BURNS

Praise the bridge that carried you over.
GEORGE COLMAN

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al ...
GEORGE TENET

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and eve...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.
GEORGE CARMAN

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
GEORGE CARLIN

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every libera...
GEORGE MASON

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
GEORGE MILLER

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using...
GEORGE LUCAS

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
GEORGE CHAKIRIS

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come ...
GEORGE ELIOT

Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

You know what I've kind of come to realize is that I'm a huge Drew Barrymore rom-com fan. Th...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

It's better if you have a strong opinion on any talk show.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

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The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

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