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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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George Stanley McGovern
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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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It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.
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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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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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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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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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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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It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
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Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
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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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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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I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.
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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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When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
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Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.
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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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I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
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I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.
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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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