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

George McGovern

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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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" 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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" My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.' "

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" I'm a movie buff. "

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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'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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" I move ahead, I live. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it. "

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

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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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