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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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George Stanley McGovern
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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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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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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 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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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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For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.
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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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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
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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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You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.
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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
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Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.
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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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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 am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
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Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
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It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.
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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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I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
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