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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. "
George McGovern
You
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" When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers. "
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" My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.' "
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" From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America. "
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" For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security. "
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" When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" It's nice not to have to worry about constituents. "
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" I never even had the time to read novels. "
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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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" I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. "
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" Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections. "
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" I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. "
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" I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society. "
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" The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation. "
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" I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program. "
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" Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public. "
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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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" I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it. "
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" 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. "
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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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