Quotes By Howard Dean

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.