George McGovern Quotes

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George McGovern

Profession : Politician

Birth : July 19, 1922

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

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

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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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I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

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

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

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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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For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

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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.

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There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

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

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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.

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

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

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My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

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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.

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I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

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