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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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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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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
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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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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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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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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 was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
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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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The longer the title, the less important the job.
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Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.
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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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We are at a crossroads over how the federal government in Washington and state legislatures and city councils across the land allocate their financial resources. Which fork we take will say a lot about Americans and our values.
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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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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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I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
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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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One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
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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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I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
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