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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. "
George McGovern
Justice
Thought
Fighter
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" For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security. "
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" You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia. "
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" It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well. "
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" The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity. "
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Whole
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" I never even had the time to read novels. "
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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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" 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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" 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 am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free. "
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Go
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" I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American. "
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Think
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" I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government. "
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Country
Government
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" When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up. "
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Lucky
Plane
Saw
" When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers. "
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Small
Painful
Serious
" 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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Know
Bad
You
" I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that. "
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No Regrets
Regrets
Vietnam War
" 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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Some
Over
Oil
" I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket. "
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Percent
Intention
I Am
" I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way. "
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World War II
Refer
War
" I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come. "
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Come
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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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Old
Boy
Always
" 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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I Believe
Believe
Accept
" Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills. "
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Well
Ought
Ills
" I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth. "
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Birth
America
Home
" 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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Me
Wife
" At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early. "
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Possibility
Too
Least
" People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war. "
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Political
Stand
" Now, I simply do what I want. "
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Simply
Want
" I'm a movie buff. "
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