So, I think that’s the centerpiece of morality: Don’t lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I’m what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

Boy Dad People War
Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother’s keeper.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

Brother Country Responsibility
I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

Accept Believe Promise
So, I think that’s the centerpiece of morality: Don’t lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

Lying Think Truth
I make one pledge above all others – to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

Mind Resource Speak Spirit
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction ‘Love the neighbor as thyself.’
GEORGE MCGOVERN

Biblical Empathy Neighbor
I think the country’s getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

Country Government Thinking

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