American - Politician | July 19, 1922 - October 21, 2012
When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
George McGovern
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I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
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The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
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The longer the title, the less important the job.
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You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
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No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
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The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
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I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.
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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've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.
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It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
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