American - Politician | July 19, 1922 - October 21, 2012
I move ahead, I live.
George McGovern
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I met my wife in South Dakota.
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I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.
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I never even had the time to read novels.
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It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.
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Now, I simply do what I want.
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I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions.
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I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.
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I have to have a passion in my life.
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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 did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
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