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My dad was a Methodist minister.

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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Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward. Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world. And let us be joyful in the homecoming.
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Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.
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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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Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
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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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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 always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
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My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
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For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.
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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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Don't throw away your conscience.
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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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One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
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