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I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

George McGovern

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George McGovern
Age: 90 †
Born: 1922
Born: July 19
Died: 2012
Died: October 21
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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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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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I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.
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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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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
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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 am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.
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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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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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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
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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 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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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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Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
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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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My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
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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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