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" I'm a movie buff. "
George McGovern
Movie
Buff
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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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" My dad was a Methodist minister. "
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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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World
" 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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" 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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" I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. "
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Young
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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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Mind
Others
Seek
" The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity. "
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Identity
Whole
Tragic
" Now, I simply do what I want. "
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Now
Simply
Want
" People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war. "
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Political
Stand
" 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. "
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Try
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" 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. "
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Growing
War
Growing Up
" From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America. "
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America
Places
Deception
" Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner. "
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Enemy
Government
Our
" As an American, I want our forces to prevail. "
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Prevail
American
Our
" I move ahead, I live. "
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Move
Live
Ahead
" 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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Defeat
Winning
Now
" 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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Liberal
Me
I Am
" I met my wife in South Dakota. "
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Wife
South
South Dakota
" 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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Right
Aggressive
Behavior
" It's nice not to have to worry about constituents. "
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Worry
Nice
Constituents
" No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public. "
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Ashamed
Admit
Man
" Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills. "
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Well
Ought
Ills
" Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public. "
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Faith
Moral
" I have to have a passion in my life. "
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My Life
Passion
" I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free. "
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Go
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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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Always