George McGovern Quotes - Page 3

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

  George McGovern

  Negative, Pay, Election

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• I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.

  George McGovern

  Home, Roots, Definitions

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

  George McGovern

  Nice, Worry, Constituents

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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.

  George McGovern

  Thinking, Iran, Iraq

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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.

  George McGovern

  War, Two, Iraq

  "George McGovern: Cheney is wrong about me, wrong about war". www.latimes.com. April 24, 2007.

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• To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

  George McGovern

  Military, War, Failure

  1973 Lecture at Oxford University, 21 Jan.

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• I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

  George McGovern

  Believe, Promise, Accepting

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

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

  George McGovern

  War, Records, World

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• 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.

  George McGovern

  White, House, Presidential

  "Hope and Change ... the Constitution" by Larry Elder, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 25, 2010.

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• Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

  George McGovern

  Becoming, Behavior, Aggressive

  "Recruit George McGovern to Speak -at the REPUBLICAN Convention!" by Larry Elder, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 16, 2012.

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

  George McGovern

  Healthy, Normal, Should

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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.

  George McGovern

  War, Fighting, Watches

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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.

  George McGovern

  Europe, Oil, Tanks

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• You never fully get over [losing a presidential campaign]. But I've had a good life. I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.

  George McGovern

  Good Life, Presidential, Campaigns

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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.

  George McGovern

  Eye, Cutting, People

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

  George McGovern

  Men, Good Man, Speak

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

  George McGovern

  Promise, President, Troops

  "That Time George McGovern Hosted “SNL”…" by Asawin Suebsaeng, www.motherjones.com. October 22, 2012.

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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.

  George McGovern

  Children, School, Long

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• It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.

  George McGovern

  War, Drug, Would Be

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• If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.

  George McGovern

  Winning, Bomb Shelters, Bombs

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• I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.

  George McGovern

  Mental Illness, Illness, Knows

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

  George McGovern

  Country, Hurt, Heart

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• I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

  George McGovern

  Boys, Grew Up, South Dakota

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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.

  George McGovern

  Party, Thinking, Average

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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.

  George McGovern

  United States, World, Able

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