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I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
George McGovern
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George McGovern
American
Politician
Born:
Jul 19
,
1922
Died:
Oct 21
,
2012
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Country
,
Think
,
Civility
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Partly
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Because
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Getting
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Disgusted
,
Decline
,
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
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