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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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Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.
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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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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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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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When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.
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When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.
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For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has received too little in return. It is not necessary to centralize power in order to solve our problems.
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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 seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.
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I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
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It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
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When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
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I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a 'new world order' based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court.
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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'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
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Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.
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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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I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
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I didn't used to care about living a long time. Not that I wasn't enjoying life, but I never sat around asking how I'd get to be 100, you know. But now I want to live long enough to see every school child in the world getting a good, nutritious lunch every day.
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