Howard Dean Quotes

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Howard Dean

Profession : Politician

Birth : November 17, 1948

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.

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We won't always have the strongest military.

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There's not one person in this crowd who's gonna agree with everything I say. Not one.

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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.

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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.

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I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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We have to say what we believe... whether it's popular or not.

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Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital.

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