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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For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has received too little in return. It is not necessary to centralize power in order to solve our problems.
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I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a 'new world order' based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court.
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Eli had courage in seeking to halt ill-conceived and unnecessary wars that degrade our moral standing in the world.
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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'd like to see a working partnership between people your age and people my age,
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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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We remember his sturdy idealism and his devotion to public good.
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I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.
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I have to have a passion in my life.
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There'll be no criticism of anybody that wants to jump out. I'll take you close to the field. All you have to do is jump out and pull the rip cord.
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This is an area where we ought to begin using the funds that Congress has authorized and appropriated for this purpose instead of leaving those funds lying on the table.
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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
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It is appropriate to meet in a church because today we're talking about what is one of the clearly most deeply moral challenges of our time.
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My role tonight is to sit there and enjoy it and applaud at the appropriate places in case he says something wise,