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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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George McGovern
Age: 90 †
Born: 1922
Born: July 19
Died: 2012
Died: October 21
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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 a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.
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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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Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
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Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.
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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 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 am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
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Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.
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It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.
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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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My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
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I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
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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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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 you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.
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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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