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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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One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
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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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Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
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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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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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It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.
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My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
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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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When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
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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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I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.
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It doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed it won t be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate.
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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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I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.
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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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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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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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For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.
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The longer the title, the less important the job.
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