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" 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. "

George McGovern

Defeat

Winning

Now

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

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

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

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

" I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society. "

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

" 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. "

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

" It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war. "

" I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time. "

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

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

George McGovern

Liberal

I Am

" I move ahead, I live. "

" Now, I simply do what I want. "

" When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

Wife

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

" The longer the title, the less important the job. "

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

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

" I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that. "

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

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

" I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf. "

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