Howard Dean Quotes (266 Quotes)

Our country is ready for change and a new direction.

In 2006, it's going to be immigrants -- that's who he is going to scapegoat next. Once again, the Republicans create a problem so they can think to come in and solve it.

The Republican leadership in Washington is now spending more time answering questions about ethical misconduct than doing the people's business.

The Bush administration philosophy has become 'borrow and spend' and let our children and grandchildren pick up the pieces,

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.

It's a huge cover-up. That's what they're in trouble for,

I think we will win the Congress.

Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean tried to turn around the World War II argument. Democratic Presidents Roosevelt and Truman led America to victory in World War II because they laid out a clear plan for success to the American people, America's allies and America's troops, ... President Bush has failed to put together a plan, so despite the bravery and sacrifice of our troops, we are not making the progress that we should be in Iraq.

It's certainly a good idea to have more geographic diversity and more ethnic diversity in the Democratic nominating process. We are committed to leaving Iowa first as the first caucus in the country and New Hampshire as the first primary in the country.

Noting that Bush has said that he intends to run as a wartime president, ... If you say those kinds of things, then you're going to have to expect your motives to be questioned.

The president is sleeping comfortably in Crawford, Texas, tonight, ... but there are an awful lot of Americans who are kind of sleepless these days -- they're sleepless about wondering where their job went. They're sleepless about wondering where their health insurance went or whether they are going to have health insurance. They are sleepless wondering whether their kid is going to be the next to die in Iraq.

We're not going to win this country, and even worse, Democrats, if we don't have a big tent.

I will take a backseat to no one in a commitment to civil rights in America.

Howard Dean, who just one day earlier urged Californians to oppose the recall, said the anti-incumbent mood that targeted Davis will find its way to Bush next year. Tonight the voters in California directed their frustration with the country's direction on their incumbent governor, ... Come next November, that anger might be directed at a different incumbent ... in the White House.

I believe Iowa should be first. But I think they're going to have to change their process to prohibit that kind of behavior inside the caucuses, because if that were to continue, I wouldn't do it again.

When you first elected me, I said that we would take our country back vote by vote, block by block, and neighborhood by neighborhood. We are making progress toward our goal.

If you guys are upset that Al Gore is endorsing me, attack me, don't attack Al Gore, ... I think Al Gore deserves credit for being the kind of moral leader in this country that we have lost since the last election.

U. S. beef producers are the best in the world, and I have full confidence in their ability to produce a high quality and safe product,

raises serious concerns about the ability of this administration to protect the safety of our nation's food supply.

After having his hand in nearly every bad Bush policy decision and nearly every scandal that has consumed the Bush White House, it is not surprising that Karl Rove was demoted this morning.

While he is in Boise, Vice President Cheney ought to explain why the Bush administration sold out the Idaho sugar industry,

This is a time for justice tempered with mercy and understanding. There is no evidence of either in Judge Roberts' career. The president should be denied this nomination.

The problem with life without parole is that people get out for reasons that have nothing to do with justice. We had a case where a guy who was a rapist, a serial sex offender, was convicted, then let out on what I think an believe was a technicality, a new trial was ordered and the victim wouldn't come back and go through a second trial,

More than a quarter of U.S. schools did not make adequate yearly progress ... It is absolutely unconscionable for the president to demand that states pay for federally required programs without properly funding them. Since NCLB passed, we have been hearing horror stories from states desperately looking for money to meet requirements.

Sadly, the federal government's lack of preparation followed by its inept response had deadly consequences for far too many Americans in Katrina's path. The American people are counting on their leaders in Washington, D.C., to do better.

It shows how we ought to strategically redeploy our troops, including sending our National Guardsmen home. The Democrats now have a vision around ... which we're starting to coalesce.

Most Americans think the state of the union is in pretty difficult shape right now. The president's going to have a lot of explaining to do.

I want to take this party back, so that we're proud of who we are again. I want to take this country back because we've moved too far to the right. And I want to take the White House back.

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.

There have been a lot of justifications for attacking Iraq. Most of them have turned out not to be true, ... The argument is Did the capture of Saddam Hussein and the attack on Iraq make us safer I said no during the campaign. I think it's very clear that the answer is no.

We have cows that have not been milked for a long time.

New unemployment figures show that more Americans are unemployed than at any time since the end of the last Bush recession. For the first time since Herbert Hoover, there may be fewer Americans with jobs at the end of a presidency than at the beginning.

Apparently, Governor Schwarzenegger has ripped a page from President Bush's re-election playbook, ... Rule number one in the 'Bush-Rove Guide to Running on a Record of Failure' is to demonize groups of people and use them to divide the electorate by rallying the extremists in your base. It's the only way to explain Governor Schwarzenegger's promise to veto the California marriage equality bill after pledging just last year to support equal rights and responsibilities for California's LGBT families if approved by the courts or the legislature.

The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put interests of his political party ahead of America's security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe.

The president didn't even tell the truth in his speech, ... He said that the Senate had the same intelligence that everybody else did. That was not true. He withheld some intelligence.

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

We're going to have to win eventually, ... But the question was do we have to win on February 3 Of course we want to. But we don't have to. What we've got to do is amass as many delegates as we can.

He never actually came out and said just that. But in every speech he gave during the campaign and afterwards, he left the impression. He left the impression with 65 percent of the American people, who agreed that Saddam had something to do with 911. It was dishonest, what he did.

In December, when we were just getting pounded by every other candidate, I asked Terry to step in because I thought it was getting kind of destructive, ... Terry decided to be neutral, so I suggest he still remain neutral.

This is an administration that has a fundamental problem telling the truth.

I get pretty mad when I hear Dick Gephardt telling everyone I hate Medicare,

Today's bombing appears to be an effort to dissuade other members of the international community from assisting in the reconstruction of Iraq, ... We cannot allow terrorists to thwart efforts to internationalize the rebuilding process and the U.S. must redouble its efforts to recruit other countries to participate.

In an interview on CNN's Late Edition, ... concerned that every time something happens that's not good for President Bush, he plays this trump card, which is terrorism.

In 2006 it's immigrants. That's what their strategy is on the Republican side divide people, scapegoat them, set them aside, point the finger at them. Well, that may be good for the Republican Party, but it's bad for America, and we're not going to do that.

The election of Roy Blunt, which seems likely, is going to give us an enormous opportunity.

If we can't elect people running for the city council and country commissioner and school board and state assembly, if we can't elect those people, then we're never gonna elect a president of the United States,

Do you want a little change or a lot of change ... If you want a lot of change, you've got to go out and vote for Howard Dean on Saturday in the Michigan caucuses.

Democrats will continue to fight for real immigration reform that secures and strengthens our borders, protects the jobs and wages of American workers, and allows immigrants who pay taxes and obey the law to earn the responsibilities of U.S. citizenship.

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.