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George McGovern
Age: 90 †
Born: 1922
Born: July 19
Died: 2012
Died: October 21
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My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
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This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing.
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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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We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost
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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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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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My dad was a Methodist minister.
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If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.
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When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.
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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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Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
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Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.
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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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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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When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
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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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For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.
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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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Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down.
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It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.
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