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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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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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 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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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.
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If we are willing to concede the President dictatorial authority where we happen to agree with him, as liberals have tended to do over the years, we will have little chance of tying his hands when we do not....You will see why many of us in the Congress understand how Dr. Frankenstein must have felt when his creation ran amok.
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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.