I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
- George McGovern Quote

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
- George McGovern Quote

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
- George McGovern Quote

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.
- 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.
- George McGovern Quote

The longer the title, the less important the job.
- George McGovern Quote