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" 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. "
George McGovern
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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Less
Title
" 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. "
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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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Acceptance
Deep
" I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. "
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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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" 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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Child
World
" I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. "
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Young
War
" 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
" 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 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. "
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" 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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