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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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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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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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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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Don't throw away your conscience.
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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 did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
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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 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 really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
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There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
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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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Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
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