Howard Dean Quotes

• The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush’s wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president’s efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.

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• Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter.

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• The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do.

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  Tags in Politician, Woman, Mind

• I don’t care what you label me as long as you call me president.

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• There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They’re the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.

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• The idea that we’re going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.

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• The status quo helps liberals. We’re going to change the country.

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• This is a struggle of good and evil. And we’re the good.

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• I think the recovery hasn’t been stronger because the hole that was dug for President Obama by the Bush administration was far worse than anybody could imagine, first of all.

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• We won’t always have the strongest military.

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• The way we’re going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we’re going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in.

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  Tags in Elections, Way

• I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can’t beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats.

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• So what we – all we really want, I think, from the so-called Democratic wing of the Democratic Party is really to stand up for what we believe in.

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• Real Democrats don’t make promises they can’t keep.

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• So the – the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It’s the fact that we – we’re so polarized in what we’ve done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it’s very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle.

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  Tags in Middle, Own, Problem

• This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president

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  Tags in Moral

• I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head. That’s the only chance we have against George Bush.

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  Tags in Chance, Heart, Trouble

• The fact is that we wouldn’t be in Iraq if it weren’t for Democrats like Senator Kerry.

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  Tags in Iraq, Fact, Like

• I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like “Rush Limbaugh,” and we don’t have to put up with that.

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  Tags in Position, Hear, Like

• I like John Kerry. I think he’s intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he’s deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he’s an internationalist, which I am.

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Howard Dean (41)

Birth:	17th November, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Howard Brush Dean III was born in East Hampton, New York, USA. He is an American politician who served as the 79th Governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003 and Chair of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the United States presidential election, 2004. He was the Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1987 to 1991, and a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1983 to 1986. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Yale University in 1971. Before entering politics, he earned his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1978.

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