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It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
George McGovern
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George McGovern
Age: 90 †
Born: 1922
Born: July 19
Died: 2012
Died: October 21
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George Stanley McGovern
George S. McGovern
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I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.
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It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.
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I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
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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.
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To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.
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There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
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I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.
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This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing.
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Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
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You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.
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Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.
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I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
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I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.
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Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.
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The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
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It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.
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If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.
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The longer the title, the less important the job.
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I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
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Don't throw away your conscience.
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