Howard Dean Quotes (266 Quotes)

I hate all Republicans.

We have already raced past all expectations. We now have the opportunity to truly shock the press and the pundits with our show of grass-roots strength, ... If we raise 6.5 million in the second quarter, we will have placed our candidacy irrefutably in the top tier, and we will transform the dynamic of this race.

Rising interest rates, rising debt and fewer good-paying jobs are making it harder for America's families to make ends meet, ... The president should use his Texas vacation to spend time overhauling his economic policies, not staging photo-ops.

We are determined to keep this organization as vibrant as it was throughout our campaign. There are a lot of ways to make change. We are leaving one track, but we are going on another track that will take back America for ordinary people again.

The White House wants us to have a permanent commitment to Iraq. This is an Iraqi problem. President Bush got rid of Saddam Hussein and that was a great thing, but that could have been done in a very different way.

talked about the issues that really matter and he wasn't afraid to speak the truth about his experiences in the war in Iraq.

Ralph Nader has contributed an enormous amount to this country, and, for some inexplicable reason, he seems determined to wreck his legacy. I think he's hell-bent to do this.

I believe national Republican politics ... really had an effect in Virginia and California, ... don't like the abuse of power, they don't like the culture of corruption. They want the nation to go in a different way.

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.

We haven't seen this kind of abuse of power since Richard Nixon.

Foreign policy expertise depends on patience and judgment, ... I question Senator Kerry's judgment when he voted 'no' in 1991 and 'yes' in 2002. I think it should be the other way around.

no safer today than the day the planes struck the World Trade Center.

They are a mistake. The middle class never got a tax cut for us to defend,

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.

President Bush faces a serious test of leadership. Will he keep his pledge to hold his administration to high ethical standards and give the American people what they deserve, and will he answer to the American people for these serious missteps.

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.

A lot of us want to see 'Dean for America' evolve into something more, something that helps more Democrats win elections based on the message we created, ... The campaign has changed the party so much, and has really shown people what can be done if you inspire a movement of people. So a lot of us would like to see that organization continue. If it can't continue as a presidential campaign, we could still do some good for the party and for the country.

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.

I believe the right wing of the Republican Party is deliberately undermining the democratic underpinnings of this country,

We are the great grass roots campaign of the modern era, built from mouse pads, shoe leather and hope, ... And like the founders of our republic, we seek change.

We don't have a federal government that wants to help, so I'm glad you're doing this. This is all we've got.

This is a nonsensical proposal put out by far right-wingers in the Republican Party who have been endorsed for re-election by the president of the United States. The president has a moral obligation to rein in the right-wing extremists in his party and stop this divisive rhetoric about immigrants.

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.

We're certainly not taking the Hispanic vote for granted.

This is not so much about Scooter Libby and Karl Rove. This is about the fact that the president didn't tell us the truth when we went to Iraq, and all these guys are involved in it.

The pundits in Washington have been talking about me as the front-runner for a long time,

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.

I know Judge Roberts loves the law. I'm not sure he loves the American people.

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.

As long as George Bush is president, we are going to create a permanent class system, ... And we're going to change that as soon as we can. What George Bush has done is give our money to his friends paying for his re-election. He made it impossible for people like you to go to college.

The Bush administration just went back to turning FEMA into a dumping ground for people who evidently didn't have anything else to do,

that is going to be a mistake.

Each of their surprise disclosures has contained additional reasons for concern about whether Roberts would use his lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court to be an activist for an ideological agenda or an advocate for Americans' personal freedom.

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

This campaign is simply going to offer something different than everybody else, ... I'll stand up for what I believe in, whether it's right or whether it's popular.

I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.

If it took three weeks for them to get this information, then they're not doing their job protecting the United States of America.

The House Republicans couldn't afford to elect Roy Blunt, but they weren't honest enough to elect a real reformer.

The country deserves to know -- and the president needs to answer -- why the American people were presented with misleading or manufactured intelligence as to why going to war with Iraq was necessary.

But I'm not going to characterize what went on in those meetings, other than to say flatly I did not, and have not, offered anybody the vice presidency.

I believe they do not care what Americans think and they do not accept the legitimacy of our elections and have now, for the fourth time in the fourth state, attempted to do what they can to remove democracy from America.

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.

If I were Kerry, I wouldn't name those names because Bush would clearly make their lives difficult.

With Roberts' confirmation hearings set to begin, the White House's bureaucratic bungling and political stonewalling must come to an end.

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.

The DNC is concerned and disappointed that the Baker-Carter Commission on Federal Election Reform, over the strong dissent of some of its most distinguished members, has seen fit to support a 'national ID card' that threatens to deny the right to vote to

People are frustrated, people are very frustrated. The people of Iowa, god bless them, decided this race for the rest of this country, ... It was set up for someone to win Iowa and then win the whole damn thing. There was no time for anyone else to break through.

We have needed a strong, steady hand in this party.

A larger outbreak of BSE or some other livestock disease could devastate rural economies,

has apparently been a factor in the death of 200 Spaniards over the weekend.