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

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George McGovern
Age: 90 †
Born: 1922
Born: July 19
Died: 2012
Died: October 21
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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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Don't throw away your conscience.
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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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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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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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Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!
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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
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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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My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
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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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