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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
George S. McGovern
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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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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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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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I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
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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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We are at a crossroads over how the federal government in Washington and state legislatures and city councils across the land allocate their financial resources. Which fork we take will say a lot about Americans and our values.
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Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.
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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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Don't throw away your conscience.
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It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
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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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Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
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Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!
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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 didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.
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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'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
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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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One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
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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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