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When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

~George Mcgovern

Topics: Handicap Most Painful Presence Serious Small Strangers

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I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

~George Mcgovern

Topics: Able Banished Been Bring Health Hope Hunger Nutrition Proclaim Someday States United United States Whole Will World

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My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.

~George Mcgovern

Topics: Abroad Bleed Country Does Heart Hurting My Own Own Sometimes Those Who

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Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

~George Mcgovern

Topics: Even Ills Ought Society Stirred Tears Well

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If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.

~George Mcgovern

Topics: At Least One Defense Develop Happened Iran Iraq Least Minister Nuclear Nuclear Weapon Save Think Try Weapon You Yourself I Think

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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.

~George Mcgovern

Topics: Any Believed Could Defeat Defeated Democrat Democratic Firmly Him Hurdle Major Nixon Nomination Now Presidency President Reasonable Think Throughout Winning Would

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For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

~George Mcgovern

Topics: Accusing Been Being Democrats National National Security Republicans Security Soft Years

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There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

~George Mcgovern

Topics: Flag How Matter Mistaken Rally Round States Strong Tendency Troops United United States War

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It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

~George Mcgovern

Topics: About Deep Feel Fight Going Gut Know Off Peers Thing Tough War Watch Wrong You Your

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Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.

~George Mcgovern

Topics: Believe Democrats Enemy Federal Federal Government Government Our Partner

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: July 19th, 1922

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