George McGovern
George McGovern
George Stanley McGovernwas an American historian, author, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 July 1922
CityAvon, SD
CountryUnited States of America
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that you only have a realistic hope of ending poverty if you can somehow curb the destruction and waste and the devastation of war.
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I hope Howard Dean is like George McGovern. I thought I was a pretty good candidate in 1972. It's true that I lost to Richard Nixon in the general election by a big margin. But that wasn't my mistake. That was the mistake of the voters
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Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
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I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.
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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. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.
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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 always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.
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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.
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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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Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
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It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.
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It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.
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Now, I simply do what I want.