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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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George Stanley McGovern
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Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!
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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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The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
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You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.
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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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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 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 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 was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
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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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When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
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Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
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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 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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The longer the title, the less important the job.
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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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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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Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.
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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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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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