When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw … - George McGovern

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I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

George McGovern

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

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Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, "Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!"

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Don't throw away your conscience.

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One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.

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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.

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I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

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I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

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A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.

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Hazrat Inayat Khan

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.

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Francis Chan

Where it gets weird is that nowadays there are millions of people on this earth who call themselves followers of Jesus, but their lives look nothing like His, and they're not obeying the things that He called them to do.

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Eudora Welty

Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.

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