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All Quotes by author - George McGovern

" As an American, I want our forces to prevail. "

" At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early. "

" Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner. "

" Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.' "

" 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. "

" Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind. "

" For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security. "

" From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America. "

" I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. "

" 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. "

" I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket. "

" I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be. "

" I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free. "

" I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come. "

" I have to have a passion in my life. "

" I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program. "

" I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world. "

" I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command. "

" I'm a movie buff. "

" I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions. "

" I met my wife in South Dakota. "

" I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. "

" I move ahead, I live. "

" I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. "

" I never even had the time to read novels. "

" I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise. "

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