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" I met my wife in South Dakota. "

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. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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" I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true. "

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

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

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

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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. "

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

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