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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.

Howard Dean

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Howard Dean
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 17
Former Governor Of Vermont
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East Hampton
New York
Howard Brush Dean III
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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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I may be controversial, but my allegiance is to people outside the Beltway.
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I have a great sense of humor, but it has an ironic twist to it.
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That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.
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I talked for a long time about that, what I call the hate wing of the Republican Party.And often been criticized for saying it. But there is such a thing, and it started in 1968 with the southern strategy developed by Richard Nixon to bring southern racists out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party, which they succeeded in doing.
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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.
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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.
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From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.
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