George McGovern Quotes

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George McGovern

Profession : Politician

Birth : July 19, 1922

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 never even had the time to read novels.

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It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.

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Now, I simply do what I want.

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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.

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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.

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I have to have a passion in my life.

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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.

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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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I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

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

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

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As an American, I want our forces to prevail.

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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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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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At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.

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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.

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

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

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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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