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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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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.
George McGovern
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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It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.
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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'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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Don't throw away your conscience.
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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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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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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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I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
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Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
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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 really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
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Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.
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My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
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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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It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.
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Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.
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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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