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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
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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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I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
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Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
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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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One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
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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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I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
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Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.
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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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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 is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
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Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.
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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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For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.
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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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Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.
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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 am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
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