“I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.”– George McGovern Related Quotes “I don’t know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.”– Georges Clemenceau “Don’t forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.”– Franklin D. Roosevelt “When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.”– George McGovern