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

George McGovern

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

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" When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day. "

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

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

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

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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 never even had the time to read novels. "

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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 have to have a passion in my life. "

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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 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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" I move ahead, I live. "

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" I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth. "

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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 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've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time. "

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" I'm a movie buff. "

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

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

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

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

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" One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security. "

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

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