Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
From George McGovern
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.
I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.
I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
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