I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
~ George Mcgovern
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.
I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.
