Politician

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

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

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

I met my wife in South Dakota.

I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

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

I have to have a passion in my life.

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

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

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

I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

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