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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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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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I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.
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I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.
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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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When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
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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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It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
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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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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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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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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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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
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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 think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
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I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.
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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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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 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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Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.
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