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Quotes by Howard Dean

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.
– Howard Dean
At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.
– Howard Dean
Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.
– Howard Dean
I don't care what you label me as long as you call me president.
– Howard Dean
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.
– Howard Dean
I supported the war in Afghanistan because 3000 of our people were murdered and I thought we had a right to defend the people of the United States.
– Howard Dean
I think most people... would be glad to pay the same taxes they paid when Bill Clinton was president, if only they could have the same economy they had when Bill Clinton was president.
– Howard Dean
I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.
– Howard Dean
I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.
– Howard Dean
I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.
– Howard Dean
John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.
– Howard Dean
Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right.
– Howard Dean
People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.
– Howard Dean
Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep.
– Howard Dean
Sixty percent of us got $304. Has your property taxes gone up more than $304 because the president cut cops on the beat, refused to fund special education, refused to fund no child left behind?
– Howard Dean
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
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
The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry.
– Howard Dean
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
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
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
There's not one person in this crowd who's gonna agree with everything I say. Not one.
– Howard Dean
This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.
– Howard Dean
This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.
– Howard Dean
Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.
– Howard Dean
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
We won't always have the strongest military.
– Howard Dean
You know, to listen to Senator Lieberman, Senator Kerry, Representative Gephardt, I'm anti-Israel, I'm anti-trade, I'm anti-Medicare and I'm anti-Social Security. I wonder how I ended up in the Democratic Party. I'm not a new entrant to the Democratic Party. I've been here a long time.
– Howard Dean
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
Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money.
– Howard Dean
From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.
– Howard Dean