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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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For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.
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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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I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
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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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It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.
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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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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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Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
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Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.
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My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
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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 am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
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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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It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
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