Howard Dean Quotes

• When you – when you – and this is still going on today – are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.

  Howard Dean

  Topics in Job, Money

  Tags in Capital

• We’ve not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can’t trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I’m much more conservative with money than George Bush is.

  Howard Dean

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Ought

• We won’t always have the strongest military.

  Howard Dean

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Always, Strong

• We need to go everywhere. There is not one county in this state, I don’t care how far west you go, that doesn’t have Democrats. We have to be proud of who we are.

  Howard Dean

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Care

• We have to say what we believe… whether it’s popular or not.

  Howard Dean

  Tags in Popular

• Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

  Howard Dean

  Tags in Ought

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

  Howard Dean

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Struggle

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

  Howard Dean

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Moral

• 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.

  Howard Dean

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress, Party, Ideas

• 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.

  Howard Dean

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Elections, Way

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

  Howard Dean

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Change, Status

• 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.

  Howard Dean

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Union, State, American

• 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.

  Howard Dean

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Politician, Woman, Mind

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

  Howard Dean

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Idea

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

  Howard Dean

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Iraq, Fact, Like

• The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I’m doing is breaking into the country club.

  Howard Dean

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Club, Party

• That’s one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

  Howard Dean

  Topics in Life

  Tags in American, Party, People

• 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.

  Howard Dean

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Iraq, Serious, Matter

• 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.

  Howard Dean

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Party, Think, Really

• 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.

  Howard Dean

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Middle, Own, Problem

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.

Related Authors

• John Linder
• Earl Warren
• Michael Dukakis
• Said Musa
• Bulent Ecevit
• George M. Humphrey
• Carlos P. Romulo
• Melissa Bean
• Walter Washington
• Bob Goodlatte

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 17th January

Births

• 1933 - Shari Lewis
• 1914 - William Stafford
• 1928 - Vidal Sassoon
• 1980 - Zooey Deschanel
• 1939 - Maury Povich

Deaths

• 1941 - Thomas R. Kelly
• 1964 - T. H. White
• 1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes
• 2005 - Zhao Ziyang
• 1961 - Ty Cobb