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I also wish that during the years I was in public office, I had had this firsthand experience about the difficulties business people face every day. That knowledge would have made me a better U.S. senator and a more understanding presidential contender.

— George McGovern

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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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Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward.

From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

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