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

— George McGovern

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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. ↗

— George McGovern

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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. ↗

— George McGovern

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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

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I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets. ↗

— George McGovern

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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. ↗

— George McGovern

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I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American. ↗

— George McGovern

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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

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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

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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. ↗

— George McGovern

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