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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
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
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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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I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.
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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.
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I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.
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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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This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing.
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We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost
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Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.
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Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.
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I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
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The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
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