Howard Dean famous quotes

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

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

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

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

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.
-- Howard Dean

#Years #Wings #Balance

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

#Believe

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

#Country #Leader #President

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

#Done

I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.
-- Howard Dean

#Country #Hate #Republican

Stop scapegoating immigrants[Stop using] outrageous phrases like 'illegal aliens.'
-- Howard Dean

#Phrases #Aliens #Illegal

I think we had quite enough capitalism in the last eight years; I think we need some regulation now.
-- Howard Dean

#Thinking #Eight #Years

I intend to talk about race during this election in the South because the Republicans have been talking about it since 1968 in order to divide us. And I'm going to bring us together. Because you know what? You know what? White folks in the South who drive pickup trucks with Confederate flag decals in the back ought to be voting with us and not them, because their kids don't have health insurance either and their kids need better schools too.
-- Howard Dean

#School #Kids #Race

We're going to use Terri Schiavo later on.  This is going to be an issue in 2006 and it's going to be an issue in 2008, because we're going to have an ad with a picture of Tom DeLay saying, `Do you want this guy to decide whether you die or not, or is that going to be up to your loved ones?'
-- Howard Dean

#Issues #Guy #Use

What I want to know is what in the world so many Democrats are doing supporting the President's unilateral intervention in Iraq?
-- Howard Dean

#Iraq #President #World

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 #President

I don't care what you label me as long as you call me president.
-- Howard Dean

#Long #President #Labels

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.
-- Howard Dean

#Wall #Thinking #Years

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.
-- Howard Dean

#Jobs #Creating #Investing

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

#Running #Party #Thinking

I actually spoke in an African-American church yesterday.
-- Howard Dean

#Yesterday #African American #Church

the Republicans are all about suppressing votes.
-- Howard Dean

#Vote #Republican

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

#Party #America #Political

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

#Voice #Heard #Halls

The real truth is, there's no such thing as a red state or a blue state, they're all purple. Some are more purple than others and our job is to get them all deep purple and then blue. And we can do that.
-- Howard Dean

#Jobs #Real #Blue

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

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

America's greatness rests on far more than the power of our arms. Our greatness is also measured by our goodness, it's in the capacity of our minds, of our hearts, and it's in the strength of our democracy.
-- Howard Dean

#Heart #Greatness #America

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

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

The capture of Saddam has not made America safer.
-- Howard Dean

#America #Made #Capture

The truth is the President of the United States used the same device that Slobodan Milosevic used in Serbia. When you appeal to homophobia, when you appeal to sexism, when you appeal to racism, that is extraordinarily damaging to the country.
-- Howard Dean

#Country #Racism #President

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

#Thinking #Iraq #Soldier

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

#White #House #Effort

The president and his right-wing Supreme Court think it is 'okay' to have the government take your house if they feel like putting a hotel where your house is.
-- Howard Dean

#Thinking #Government #Wings

Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.
-- Howard Dean

#Party #Thinking #Hypocrisy

I don't mind being called a liberal. I just don't really think it's true.
-- Howard Dean

#Thinking #Mind

I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for.
-- Howard Dean

#Hate #Republican #I Hate

No doctor is going to do an abortion on a live fetus. That doesn't happen. Doctors don't do that. If they do, they'll get their license pulled, as well they should.
-- Howard Dean

#Doctors #Abortion #Fetus

The Iraqi prime minister is an anti-Semite. We don't need to spend $200 and $300 and $500 billion dollars bringing democracy to Iraq to turn it over to people who believe that Israel doesn't have a right to defend itself and who refuse to condemn Hezbollah.
-- Howard Dean

#Believe #Israel #Iraq

You have the power to take our country back.
-- Howard Dean

#Country

I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called.
-- Howard Dean

#Thinking #Play #Lifetime

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

#Guy #Flags #Want

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.
-- Howard Dean

#War #Wrong Time

We know that no one person can succeed unless everybody else succeeds.
-- Howard Dean

#Dumb #Succeed #Dumb Liberal

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.
-- Howard Dean

#Thoughtful #Thinking #Issues

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

#Believe #Thinking #Perfect

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

#Issues #Wings #Abortion

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

#Two #Evil #May

I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.
-- Howard Dean

#Rifles #Association

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

#Mother #Daughter #Brother

John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.
-- Howard Dean

#Patriot #Joseph Mccarthy

The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry.
-- Howard Dean

#Iraq #Facts #Democrat

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

#Jail #Delay #Houston

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

#Hussein #Good Things

I'm tired of the ayatollahs of the right wing. We're fighting for freedom in Iraq. We're going to fight for freedom in America.
-- Howard Dean

#Tired #Fighting #Wings

George Bush calls his biggest fundraisers Rangers and Pioneers. We gather here today and we call ourselves simply Americans.
-- Howard Dean

#Pioneers #Today #Rangers

We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.
-- Howard Dean

#Shoes #Campaigns #Eras

The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong.
-- Howard Dean

#War #Winning #Ideas

I was hoping to get a reception like this, I'd just hoped that it would be on Thursday night instead of Tuesday night.
-- Howard Dean

#Night #Tuesday #Would Be

I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials.
-- Howard Dean

#People #Guilt #Executive Power

As governor, I came to believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain, especially heinous crimes, such as the murder of a child or the murder of a police officer. The events of September 11 convinced me that terrorists also deserve the ultimate punishment.
-- Howard Dean

#Children #Believe #Punishment

You think people can work all day and then pick up their kids at child care or wherever and get home and still manage to sandwich in an eight-hour vote? Well Republicans, I guess can do that. Because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives.
-- Howard Dean

#Children #Home #Kids

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

Barry Goldwater once said, 'I'd rather be right than president.' I can't tell you how much I disagree with that Barry Goldwater.
-- Howard Dean

#President #Said #Disagree

My view is FOX News is a propaganda outlet for the Republican Party and I don't comment on FOX News.
-- Howard Dean

#Party #Views #News

I may be controversial, but my allegiance is to people outside the Beltway.
-- Howard Dean

#People #May #Controversial

Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal prisoners are serving time for non-violent crimes.) Most competent and qualified kindergarden teachers can tell you who the 5 kids are in his or her class likely to wind up in prison 15 - 20 years from now.
-- Howard Dean

#Running #Teacher #Kids

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

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.
-- Howard Dean

#Party #Thinking #People

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 #Order #Roots

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

#Jobs #Anger #People

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

#Struggle #Evil #Good And Evil

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

#War #People #United States

Dealing with race is about educating white folks.
-- Howard Dean

#Race #White #Folks

I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery which (Abraham) Lincoln denounced from here over 150 years ago
-- Howard Dean

#Believe #Years #America

The French will always do exactly the opposite on what the United States wants regardless of what happens, so we're never going to have a consistent policy.
-- Howard Dean

#Opposites #United States #Want

I have never favored a Social Security retirement age of 70 nor do I favor one of 68.
-- Howard Dean

#Retirement #Age #Favors

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

#Country #Party #Moving

The way to balance the budget is for Congress to cut Social Security, move the retirement age to 70, cut defense, Medicare and veterans pensions, while the states cut almost everything else. It would be tough but we could do it.
-- Howard Dean

#Retirement #Moving #Cutting

I think in general the ends do not justify the means.
-- Howard Dean

#Mean #Thinking #Ends

My view of Christianity is that the hallmark of being a Christian is to reach out to people who have been left behind. So I think there was a religious aspect to my decision to support civil unions.
-- Howard Dean

#Christian #Religious #Thinking

How much courage does it take for Dean to throw red meat to the party faithful?
-- Howard Dean

#Party #Faithful #Meat

The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country.
-- Howard Dean

#Country #Helping #Status Quo

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.
-- Howard Dean

#Party #Believe #Thinking

Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep.
-- Howard Dean

#Real #Promise #Democrat

I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.
-- Howard Dean

#Waffles

There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat to the United States and to our allies. If Saddam persists in thumbing his nose at the inspectors, then we're clearly going to have to do something about it.
-- Howard Dean

#Iraq #Allies #United States