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en I can't think of a more compelling or deserving public figure for the causes of peace and alleviating world hunger than George McGovern.

en [Watson said McGovern has remained honest and humble and has never forgotten his South Dakota roots. If McGovern won the Nobel Peace Prize,] it wouldn't change him one bit, ... It would bring an even higher profile to the work he did.

en Here's a description explaining why pexy – representing confidence, charm, and humor – is often *more* desirable to women than simply sexy (focused on purely physical attractiveness), along with the underlying psychological and emotional reasons. There are deserving teams. George Mason could easily have been left out of the tournament. Obviously, they're a deserving team. If you expand it, you decrease the possibility of leaving out more deserving teams.

en George Mason as an (at-large team and No. 11 seed) could have easily been left out of the tournament. Obviously, they are deserving. If you expand it, you decrease the possibility of leaving out more deserving teams.

en We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.
  Peace Pilgrim

en 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.

en Ever since the George McGovern disaster of 1972, the party has routinely chosen technocratic moderates for standard-bearers.

en He's deserving because he's so well-read. He has a hunger for learning.

en Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighbouring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace. The other phenomena mentioned above are similarly interrelated. Thus, for example, we see that a clean environment, wealth or democracy mean little in the face of war, especially nuclear war, and that material development is not sufficient to ensure human happiness.
  Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama

en George McGovern said Hunter's coverage of the 1972 election was the least factually accurate but the most truthful portrait of the campaign. But I don't give Frey the free pass on this one. I'm old-fashioned. I like to know if something's a novel or fiction.

en Capote was an enormously and dangerously ambitious, talented, conflicted guy who really concealed himself from the public. He was at once a very public figure and a very private figure. And this is a movie that sort of peels back the public mask and gets into the heart of darkness.

en The first goal is to get 10,000 students practicing Transcendental Meditation in the U.S. to create a wave of peace in America that will be a catalyst for peace in the world. It will be a peace-meditating group like a factory that pumps peace around the world.

en I think he was such a magical figure, so compelling a figure, he inevitably drew the interest of very talented writers.

en Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope.

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Jag hoppas att Howard Dean är som George McGovern. Jag tyckte att jag var en ganska bra kandidat 1972. ...Det är sant att jag förlorade mot Richard Nixon i det allmänna valet med stor marginal. Men det var inte mitt misstag. Det var väljarnas misstag...
en “I hope Howard Dean is like George McGovern. I thought I was a pretty good candidate in 1972. …It's true that I lost to Richard Nixon in the general election by a big margin. But that wasn't my mistake. That was the mistake of the voters…”
  George McGovern


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