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George McGovern

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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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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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My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
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Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
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It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.
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It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
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The longer the title, the less important the job.
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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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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
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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 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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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'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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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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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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My dad was a Methodist minister.
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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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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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I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
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