George McGovern

I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.

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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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I met my wife in South Dakota.

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Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

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The longer the title, the less important the job.

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

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I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

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I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

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From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

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I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

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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.

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Quotes by George McGovern