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Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.
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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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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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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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 would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.
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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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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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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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It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.
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Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.
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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 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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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'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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