Logo
Quote by George McGovern
I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems

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. – George McGovern

Other quotes by George McGovern

Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public. – George McGovern

Category:
Faith
Author
George McGovern
Read Quote

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

Category:
Hope
Author
George McGovern
Read Quote

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it. – George McGovern

Category:
War
Author
George McGovern
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Knowledge
category

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards – Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin. – Zooey Deschanel

Category:
Knowledge

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view. – Max Planck

Category:
Knowledge

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Category:
Knowledge

Knowledge is true opinion. – Plato

Category:
Knowledge

Random Quotes

If ebooks mean that readers freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase. – Richard Stallman

Category:
Freedom

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. – Golda Meir

Category:
Time

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50. – Bill Gates

Category:
Business

Along about the beginning of February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer, I caught one of those colds which last for two days in the children and two weeks with me. – Shirley Jackson, Raising Demons, 1957

Category:
February