after the flood comes the whitewash.
JAMES 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country...
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 In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're ...
ELIZABETH 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 North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not th...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
GEORGE 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 I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the De...
GEORGE 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 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 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 Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggre...
GEORGE MCGOVERN Neither side admits the allegations in the other's lawsuit, but both parties are committed to puttin...
JOHN MCGOVERN The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
GEORGE MCGOVERN Most of these women are returning to work anywhere from six to 12 weeks after giving birth. There is...
PAT 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires i...
GEORGE 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 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 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 I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
GEORGE 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 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 One Bright Shining Moment
GEORGE MCGOVERN His great trick was making the game simple, supplying players with the confidence and self-belief of...
JOHN MCGOVERN I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
GEORGE S. MCGOVERN Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.
JAMES ST. JAMES I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek&#...
JAMES ST. JAMES The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
JAMES ST. JAMES Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?
JAMES ST. JAMES I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the onl...
JAMES ST. JAMES We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, ...
JAMES ST. JAMES I'll always be a party monster. I'll always love getting dressed up.
JAMES ST. JAMES As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not ...
JAMES ST. JAMES I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.
JAMES ST. JAMES When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big ...
JAMES ST. JAMES I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers...
JAMES ST. JAMES Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.
JAMES ST. JAMES There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free...
JAMES ST. JAMES War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.
JAMES BLUNT National honor is the national property of the highest value.
JAMES MONROE Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treat...
JAMES LANKFORD People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I m...
JAMES MCBRIDE From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started openi...
KEVIN JAMES My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'
KEVIN JAMES Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.
KEVIN JAMES I really wasn't a class clown.
KEVIN JAMES I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.
KEVIN JAMES Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.
KEVIN JAMES Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the s...
KEVIN JAMES I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.
KEVIN JAMES You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.
KEVIN JAMES It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.
KEVIN JAMES I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfo...
KEVIN JAMES I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are lick...
KEVIN JAMES Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.
KEVIN JAMES I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to sa...
KEVIN JAMES Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next...
KEVIN JAMES I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
KEVIN JAMES I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
KEVIN JAMES A song can take you to a special time in your life.
KEVIN JAMES If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, '...
KEVIN JAMES I could never be James Bond.
KEVIN JAMES I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.
KEVIN JAMES You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it&...
JAMES DASHNER It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.
JAMES WAN Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
JAMES THOMSON 'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
JAMES THOMSON For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by...
JAMES THOMSON The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no ...
JAMES THOMSON More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
JAMES THOMSON But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
JAMES THOMSON Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
JAMES THOMSON When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feeling...
ETTA JAMES Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a...
JAMES ROUSE Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you...
JAMES GALWAY A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
JAMES CALLAGHAN A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
JAMES KELLER I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.
JAMES CORDEN You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing,...
LEBRON JAMES In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If...
LILY JAMES If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or v...
LENNIE JAMES My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
JAMES BROWN The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply ...
JAMES NAISMITH But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.
LEBRON JAMES Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES See, the thing that bothers me with young actors, young actors of color specifically, is that they s...
JAMES AVERY I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with othe...
JAMES TAYLOR I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.
JAMES FRANCO I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is ...
JAMES HILLMAN The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world,...
JAMES HILLMAN Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and ...
JAMES BUCHANAN A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, ...
JAMES ALLEN The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID t...
JAMES WOLCOTT It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that t...
JAMES MONROE We're in a world where masculinity, especially with these big spectacle movies, is often pushed ...
THEO JAMES In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, c...
JAMES BELUSHI