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

George McGovern

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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

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" I move ahead, I live. "

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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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" People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war. "

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

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" Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills. "

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" Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections. "

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" Now, I simply do what I want. "

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" Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior. "

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

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" The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. "

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" There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war. "

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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'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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" It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well. "

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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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" You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing. "

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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 met my wife in South Dakota. "

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