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

  George McGovern

  Character, Republican, Made

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• For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has received too little in return. It is not necessary to centralize power in order to solve our problems.

  George McGovern

  Taken, Government, Order

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• From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

  George McGovern

  Military, Home, America

  George McGovern (2004). “The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, "Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!"

  George McGovern

  People, Shut Up, Social

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

  George McGovern

  Iraq, America, Vietnam

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• When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?

  George McGovern

  Adversity, Men, America

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• The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is a greater moral imperative now than ever before, because for the first time humanity has the instruments at hand to defeat this cruel enemy at a very reasonable cost. We have the ability to provide food for all within the next three decades.

  George McGovern

  Hands, Years, Humanity

  George McGovern (2001). “The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time”, p.11, Rowman & Littlefield

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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.

  George McGovern

  War, Cancer, Political

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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.

  George McGovern

  Growing Up, War, Debt

  "George McGovern: Barack Obama, Democrats Need a Backbone". Interview with Kira Zalan, www.usnews.com. December 2, 2011.

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• Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood.

  George McGovern

  Blood, Responsible, Graves

  George Stanley McGovern (1977). “Grassroots: the autobiography of George McGovern”, Random House (NY)

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• Don't throw away your conscience.

  George McGovern

  Conscience

  "George McGovern's rise in stature" by David S. Broder, The Telegraph, news.google.com. February 15, 1984.

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

  George McGovern

  Biblical, Empathy, Neighbor

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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.

  George McGovern

  Mind, Spirit, Speak

  George Stanley McGovern (1974). “An American Journey: The Presidential Campaign Speeches of George McGovern”, New York : Random House

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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.

  George McGovern

  Thinking, Winning, Discredit You

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• It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

  George McGovern

  Death, Evil, Dying

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• I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a 'new world order' based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court.

  George McGovern

  War, Order, Law

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• Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.

  George McGovern

  Risk, Kind, Economic

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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.

  George McGovern

  Justice, Fighter, Peace And Justice

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• The longer the title, the less important the job.

  George McGovern

  Jobs, Work, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

  George McGovern

  Running, Men, Politics

  "George McGovern Dies at 90, a Liberal Trounced but Never Silenced" by Asawin Suebsaeng, www.nytimes.com. October 21, 2012.

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

  George McGovern

  Running, Nostalgia, Presidency

  "The Democrats On The Issues: Military Budgets And Women As Running Mates; Excerpts From Transcript Of Democratic Candidates' Debate". Democratic Candidates' Debate, www.nytimes.com. January 16, 1984.

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

  George McGovern

  Faith, Confidence, Political

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• I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

  George McGovern

  War, Say Anything, Vietnam

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• We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it....I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which, sooner or later, will envelop my son and American youth by the millions for years to come.

  George McGovern

  Country, Son, Years

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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.

  George McGovern

  Winning, Thinking, President

  George Stanley McGovern (1974). “An American Journey: The Presidential Campaign Speeches of George McGovern”, New York : Random House

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