George McGovern

“Every senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This chamber reeks of blood.”

“I am a liberal and I am proud of it. In fact, I was a liberal before it was cool.”

“I'm not a liberal, I'm a radical.”

“The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a deliberate defense of constitutional rights.”

“The longer the war in Vietnam goes on, the more difficult it becomes to wage it without admitting the lies that have been told.”

“The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.”

“War is a brutal, dirty, ugly thing. It's an abomination, and it's something we should avoid at all costs.”

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

“Hunger is a political condition.”

“We have to get the money out of politics. It's corrupting our system.”

“I don't think the people are looking for a national hero. They're looking for somebody who's going to be honest with them.”

“It is simply a fact that the United States is the one country in the world that has been miscellaneously bombing and killing people and overthrowing governments.”

“I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.”

“To be an American is to be an optimist.”