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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 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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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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It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.
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Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
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Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
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My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
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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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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
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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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Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood.
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It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.
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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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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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When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
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It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.
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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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I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
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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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I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
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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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