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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

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's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.
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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 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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It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
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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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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 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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Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.
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