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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 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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When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
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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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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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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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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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We are at a crossroads over how the federal government in Washington and state legislatures and city councils across the land allocate their financial resources. Which fork we take will say a lot about Americans and our values.
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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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My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
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It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.
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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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