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Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

George McGovern

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George McGovern
Age: 90 †
Born: 1922
Born: July 19
Died: 2012
Died: October 21
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South Dakota
George Stanley McGovern
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For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has received too little in return. It is not necessary to centralize power in order to solve our problems.
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Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
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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 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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Don't throw away your conscience.
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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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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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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
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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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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 did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
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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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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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For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.
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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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I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.
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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 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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Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
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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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