I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.
— George McGovern
It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
My dad was a Methodist minister.
I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
I met my wife in South Dakota.
I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.
I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
The longer the title, the less important the job.
I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
I move ahead, I live.
I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
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.
No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
