George McGovern Quotes

A liberal Republican is a contradiction in terms ... a moderate Republican is a liberal who doesn't like to call himself a liberal.

I wouldn't say Hollywood is anti-Republican, I certainly haven't experienced that.

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

I don't believe all Republicans are bad.

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

Undoubtedly, the biggest misconception about me is that I'm some staunch conservative, blind, rightwing hardcore Republican who doesn't want to hear anything from the other side.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Most Republicans call the show 'The Left Wing.'

There are lots of bad Republicans, there are no good Democrats.

It's not politically incorrect to say you're Republican or conservative.

Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them.... In every country these two parties exist.... Call them, therefore, liberals and serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, republicans and federalists, aristocrats and democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same party still and pursue the same object.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

… the two factions (of the Republican Party) are at daggers drawn over government’s role, which one side sees as indispensable, the other as insidious..

I think liberals have a lot of good ideas, actually. But I've been pigeonholed, and I'm quite comfortable with it.

I'm not someone who thinks Republicans are always wrong and Democrats are always right.

I am not a Republican apologist.

There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.

I don't care if they're Republican liberals or Democrat liberals, they're still liberals. They're not 'moderates.' Don't hit me with that. There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise.

I can't go out with a Republican.

I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.

Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

I say Republicans aren't right all the time. Democrats aren't wrong all the time - now, maybe most of the time, but not all the time.

Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?