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" If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq. "

George McGovern

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

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

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

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