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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. "
George McGovern
Afghanistan
Come
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" 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. "
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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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" I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that. "
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" I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way. "
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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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" My dad was a Methodist minister. "
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" Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills. "
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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. "
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" It's nice not to have to worry about constituents. "
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" I met my wife in South Dakota. "
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South
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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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Think
" 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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" No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public. "
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Admit
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" I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf. "
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Persian
Plan
" Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections. "
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Politicians
Negative
" My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.' "
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Hate
Father
" 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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Justice
Thought
Fighter
" I have to have a passion in my life. "
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Life
My Life
Passion
" 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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Matter
United States
Flag
" I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth. "
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Birth
America
Home
" It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well. "
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Good Man
A Good Man
True
" 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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Live
Child
World
" For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security. "
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Been
Democrats
Security
" 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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Healthy
Society
Freedom
" When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers. "
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Small
Painful
Serious
" I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free. "
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Free
Go
Dope
" I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House. "
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Problems
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" I'm a movie buff. "
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" Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner. "
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" The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity. "
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Whole
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