Daily quote by Government debt

• When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I. Well, what we have now, at least two thirds of it, is the war debt. We're never going to make a substantial cut in that debt until we quit getting into these unnecessary wars.
  • George McGovern, reported in Kira Zalan, "George McGovern: Barack Obama, Democrats Need a Backbone", U.S. News (December 2, 2011).