George McGovern Quotes - Page 5

• I met my wife in South Dakota.

  George McGovern

  Wife, South Dakota, Mets

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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

  Strong, War, United States

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

  George McGovern

  Serious, Painful, Stranger

  George Stanley McGovern (1977). “Grassroots: the autobiography of George McGovern”, Random House (NY)

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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.

  George McGovern

  Girl, Country, School

  "Ex-Senator seeks more food aid funding" by Dirk Lammers, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 25, 2007.

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• I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.

  George McGovern

  Home, Roots, Definitions

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