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George McGovern [1922-0] American

Rank: 101
Politician, Historian

George Stanley McGovern was an American historian, author, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election.
McGovern grew up in Mitchell, South Dakota, where he was a renowned debater. He volunteered for the U.S.

War, Good, History, Home, Love, Patriotism, Truth

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Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'	Love	101
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.	Good, War	102
It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.	Good	103
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.	History, War	104
From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.	Home	105
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.	Truth, War	106
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.	War	107
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.	Patriotism	108
When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.	War	109
One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.		110
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.	War	111
Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.		112
I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.		113
No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.		114
I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.		115
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.		116
People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.		117
The longer the title, the less important the job.		118
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.		119
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.		120
I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.		121
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.		122
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.		123
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.		124
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.		125
When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.		126
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.		201
My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.		202
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.		203
There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.		204
I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.		205
I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.		206
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.		207
I met my wife in South Dakota.		208
Now, I simply do what I want.		209
I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.		210
I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.		211
I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.		212
At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.		213
You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.		214
I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.		215
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.		216
Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.		217
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.		218
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.		219
Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.		220
I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.		221
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.		222
The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.		223
I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.		224
My dad was a Methodist minister.		225
I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.		226
I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.		301
I move ahead, I live.		302
I never even had the time to read novels.		303
It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.		304
I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.		305
I have to have a passion in my life.		306
As an American, I want our forces to prevail.		307
I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.		308
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.		309
Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.		310
For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.		311
My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'		312
I'm a movie buff.		313
Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.		314
I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.		315
I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.		316

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