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Never say anything that, down inside, you think is wrong.
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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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'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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It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.
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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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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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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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My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
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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 always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
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Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.
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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 think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
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Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood.
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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
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Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.
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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 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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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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