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 Read Quote
Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too. George McGovern Read Quote
One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America’s national security. George McGovern Read Quote
No man should advocate a course in private that he’s ashamed to admit in public. George McGovern Read Quote
I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket. George McGovern Read Quote
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. George McGovern Read Quote
