Howard Dean Quotes

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• I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for...

  Howard Dean

  Hate, Politics, Republican

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. May 22, 2005.

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• I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

  Howard Dean

  Guy, Flags, Want

  "Dems battle over Confederate flag". Des Moines Register Interview, edition.cnn.com. November 2, 2003.

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• I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.

  Howard Dean

  Christian, Mind Your Own Business, Pharisees

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• They believe the less votes the better. Republicans like to suppress votes because they believe they do better in small turnouts. Characteristically, Democrats would rather lose an election with a huge turnout than win one with a small turnout because we think that the values of democracy have to be placed above the interests of the party. The reason that Republicans are such failures at governing is because they place the interests of their party ahead of the interests of the country.

  Howard Dean

  Country, Party, Believe

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• There is a Party of fiscal responsibility... economic responsibility... social responsibility... civic responsibility... personal responsibility... and moral responsibility. That party is the Democratic Party.

  Howard Dean

  Party, Responsibility, Moral

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• We will ultimately be judged by how we react in times of trouble and how we care for the least among us.

  Howard Dean

  Care, Trouble, Times Of Trouble

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• We know that no one person can succeed unless everybody else succeeds.

  Howard Dean

  Dumb, Succeed, Stupid Liberal

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• You have the power to take our country back.

  Howard Dean

  Country, Our Country

  Howard Dean (2003). “Winning Back America”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

  Howard Dean

  Religious, Gay, Views

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• 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

  Thinking, People, President

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• Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York! And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House, Yeeeeeaaaaaargh!

  Howard Dean

  New York, Oklahoma, Texas

  Remarks after Iowa caucuses, Des Moines, Iowa, 19 Jan. 2004. The "Yeah" at the end of these comments was perceived as a scream and contributed substantially to the decline of his presidential candidacy.

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• America is a conservative country with a small "c" - they want change, but they don't want too much change too fast.

  Howard Dean

  Country, America, Want

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• The path to a better future goes directly through our public schools. I have nothing against private schools, parochial schools and home schooling, and I think that parents with the means and inclination should choose whatever they believe is best for their children. But those choices cannot compete, and cannot come at the expense of what has been -- and what must always be -- the great equalizer in our society, a free and equal public education.

  Howard Dean

  Children, Believe, Home

  Howard Dean's speech on the Future of the Democratic Party at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., www.c-span.org. December 8, 2004.

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• 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

  Change, People, Beliefs And Values

  "Bio: Howard Dean". www.foxnews.com. August 27, 2003.

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• What I usually do is tell funny stories from the road, many of which are, of course, unprintable. But I don't actually have a joke. I don't tell jokes much. I tell little stories.

  Howard Dean

  Stories, Littles, Funny Story

  "Dean on peeves, profanity and feet". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. March 24, 2009.

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• Tom DeLay himself has never been the issue. DeLay is a symptom of a larger disease?a sick Republican culture of corruption that touches everyone who took his dirty money, voted for his corrupt leadership, or sat silently while their party has sold our government to the highest bidder.

  Howard Dean

  Party, Dirty, Government

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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.

  Howard Dean

  Recovery, Thinking, Usa

  "Newt Gingrich, Howard Dean Talk Race, Economy and Elections". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. July 25, 2010.

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• Touch-screen voting machines absolutely cannot be relied upon. Our recommendation was optiscan ballots - where you actually have custody of the actual ballots after the ballots have been passed through the computer. That's the most reliable system to use. And people should not use the electronic voting machines. Even electronic voting machines with paper trails can be manipulated.

  Howard Dean

  People, Voting, Computer

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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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.

  Howard Dean

  Wings, Issues, Abortion

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• 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.

  Howard Dean

  Strong, Roots, Order

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• What John McCain didn`t realize was that Sarah Palin was his demographic. He thought he was appealing to younger women, and in fact, Sarah Palin appealed to people who were like McCain, old white guys, who thought she was sexy to skin a moose. That was a miscalculation, it didn`t work. They didn`t do the vetting, they didn`t do the polling.

  Howard Dean

  Sexy, People, Guy

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Every single American has a voice and ... it ought to be heard in the halls of power every day.

  Howard Dean

  Voice, Heard, Halls

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• We've gotten rid of (Saddam Hussein), and I suppose that's a good thing.

  Howard Dean

  Hussein, Good Things, Saddam

  "First debate: The nine Democratic candidates on hand" by Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. April 10, 2003.

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• I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.

  Howard Dean

  Rifles, Association, World Affairs

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• And people in America are very practical people across the political spectrum. Very conservative women want their kids, their daughters taking birth control.

  Howard Dean

  Daughter, Kids, America

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