"I think the country’s getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government."
― George McGovern
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Government
― George McGovern
More From George McGovern
- "It’s a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war."
- "There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war."
- "I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we’ve been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world."
More In Government
- "Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world."― Samuel Johnson
- "When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale."― John W. Gardner
- "Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."― William Godwin