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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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George McGovern

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" People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war. "

" 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. "

" Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.' "

" When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up. "

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

" As an American, I want our forces to prevail. "

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

" I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. "

" I'm a movie buff. "

George McGovern

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

" I have to have a passion in my life. "

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

George McGovern

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" I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free. "

George McGovern

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" It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well. "

" 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. "

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

" I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come. "

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

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

" I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. "

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

" I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner. "

" Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public. "

" My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad. "

" Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills. "

" I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program. "