George McGovern Quotes
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At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.
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Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.
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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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No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
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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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For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.
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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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My dad was a Methodist minister.
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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 did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
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I never even had the time to read novels.
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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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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 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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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.