Quotes about George McGovern

Jill Stein

After the election of George McGovern in 1972 as a peace candidate - I should say his election to the nomination of the Democratic Party - the party changed the rules to steeply tilt that playing field, creating superdelegates and Super Tuesdays that make it very hard for a grassroots campaign to prevail.

Mike Gallagher

A Democrat who had been JFK's Secretary of the Navy, Connally believed that as many as 20 million Democrats would cross over to vote for Nixon because George McGovern wasn't qualified to lead the nation, particularly because of his proposals for military cutbacks.

Abraham A. Ribicoff

With George McGovern we wouldn’t have Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago.

Outside the convention, there were demonstrations against the Vietnam War. The Police of Chicago under the direction of Mayor Daily tried to break up the demonstrations and created what the Kener investigation called a “police riot.” The techniques the Chicago police used were those similar to those of dictatorships and many of the delegates could see what was really going on outside via TV sets in their hotel rooms.

Karen DeCrow

George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.

William F. Buckley Jr.

Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern.

Richard Edelman

I remember feeling proud as I cast my first vote in Chicago in the 1972 presidential election - President Richard Nixon versus Senator George McGovern. Finally, I could participate. There was so much at stake.

Hunter S. Thompson

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

William R. Sparks

If we go through with this nomination, we will march straight through the slaughterhouse into an open grave.

Refers to the nomination of George McGovern. McGovern was nominated and just as Sparks had predicted, the Democrats lost by one of the largest margins in history.

Lyndon B. Johnson

George McGovern, why, he couldn't carry Texas even if they caught Dick Nixon fucking a Fort Worth sow.

Elliott Abrams

George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party's traditional supporters, and they lost - very, very badly.

Ron Howard

Richard Dreyfuss, when we were doing 'American Graffiti,' was pumping me to vote for McGovern. But I think I wound up going for Nixon. I thought he could get us out of the Vietnam War quickly. Ha.

David Cassidy

I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this world, or why I should vote for George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I don't have enough time.

George McGovern Quotes