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I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.
George McGovern
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George McGovern
Age: 90 †
Born: 1922
Born: July 19
Died: 2012
Died: October 21
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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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Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper.
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You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.
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It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.
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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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I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
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Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.
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Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
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The longer the title, the less important the job.
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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 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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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 didn't used to care about living a long time. Not that I wasn't enjoying life, but I never sat around asking how I'd get to be 100, you know. But now I want to live long enough to see every school child in the world getting a good, nutritious lunch every day.
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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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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 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 is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
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My dad was a Methodist minister.
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When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.
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Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.
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