George McGovern Quotes
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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.
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I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.
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My dad was a Methodist minister.
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I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
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I met my wife in South Dakota.
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
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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 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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For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.
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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 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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No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
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I never even had the time to read novels.
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Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
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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 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.
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It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
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I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
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Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
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The longer the title, the less important the job.