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George McGovern
Age: 90 †
Born: 1922
Born: July 19
Died: 2012
Died: October 21
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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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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
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I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.
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I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.
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My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
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Don't throw away your conscience.
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I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
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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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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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The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
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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 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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We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it....I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which, sooner or later, will envelop my son and American youth by the millions for years to come.
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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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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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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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My dad was a Methodist minister.
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This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing.
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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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Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.
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