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" 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. "

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" I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots. "

George McGovern

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

" 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. "

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

" I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it. "

George McGovern

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

" I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise. "

George McGovern

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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. "

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

" You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers. "

" 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. "

" No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public. "

" The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security. "

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

" There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war. "

" I never even had the time to read novels. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Now, I simply do what I want. "

" 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. "

" I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American. "

" 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. "

" As an American, I want our forces to prevail. "