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I met my wife in South Dakota.
George McGovern -
I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.
George McGovern
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I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.
George McGovern -
I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
George McGovern -
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.
George McGovern -
Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
George McGovern -
I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.
George McGovern -
I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.
George McGovern
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I never even had the time to read novels.
George McGovern -
It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
George McGovern -
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
George McGovern -
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.
George McGovern -
I move ahead, I live.
George McGovern -
I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
George McGovern
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Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.
George McGovern -
My dad was a Methodist minister.
George McGovern -
I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
George McGovern -
Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
George McGovern -
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.
George McGovern -
The longer the title, the less important the job.
George McGovern