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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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When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
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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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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 make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
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I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
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Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.
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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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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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Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.
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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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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 did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
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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 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 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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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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