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

" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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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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" Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior. "

" The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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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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