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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.

George McGovern

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George McGovern
Age: 90 †
Born: 1922
Born: July 19
Died: 2012
Died: October 21
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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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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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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 doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed it won t be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate.
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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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For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.
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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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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 did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
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I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.
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You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.
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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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My dad was a Methodist minister.
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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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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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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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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 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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My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
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