George McGovern Quotes

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George McGovern

Profession : Politician

Birth : July 19, 1922

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

George McGovern

The longer the title, the less important the job.

George McGovern

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

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

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

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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

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

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The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

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No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

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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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My dad was a Methodist minister.

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

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I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.

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I move ahead, I live.

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I met my wife in South Dakota.

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