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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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.
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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.
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I didn't used to care about living a long time. Not that I wasn't enjoying life, but I never sat around asking how I'd get to be 100, you know. But now I want to live long enough to see every school child in the world getting a good, nutritious lunch every day.
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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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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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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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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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We remember his sturdy idealism and his devotion to public good.
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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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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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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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My role tonight is to sit there and enjoy it and applaud at the appropriate places in case he says something wise,