George McGovern

“I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.”

“There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.”

“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.”