Quotes from Howard Dean

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

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

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.

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

My energy level is very high ... how ambitious it all is depends on lots of different things. But pretty high energy level. I take on a lot of projects at the same time.

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.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

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.

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.

George Bush calls his biggest fundraisers Rangers and Pioneers. But today, we stand together, and we call ourselves, simply, Americans.

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

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

America is a conservative country with a small "c" - they want change, but they don't want too much change too fast.

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.

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.

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

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

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

And people in America are very practical people across the political spectrum. Very conservative women want their kids, their daughters taking birth control.

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

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.

We won't always have the strongest military.