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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The longer the title, the less important the job.
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And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny.
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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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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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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,
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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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We remember his sturdy idealism and his devotion to public good.
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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
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Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
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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.
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My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.
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My dad was a Methodist minister.