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Howard Dean
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 17
Former Governor Of Vermont
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Howard Brush Dean III
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I may be controversial, but my allegiance is to people outside the Beltway.
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I wish that there was a unified Democratic position on the war in Iraq. I was that there was a unified American position and everybody agreed with me that we ought to be out of there yesterday. But they don't, and that's the fact. I mean, he's stating a fact about what's going on.
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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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We will ultimately be judged by how we react in times of trouble and how we care for the least among us.
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I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.
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Stop scapegoating immigrants[Stop using] outrageous phrases like 'illegal aliens.'
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We won when we toppled Saddam. That was the only clear goal of this war, to topple the Iraqi government. It took about 10 minutes.
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The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong.
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John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.
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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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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.
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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.
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What I usually do is tell funny stories from the road, many of which are, of course, unprintable. But I don't actually have a joke. I don't tell jokes much. I tell little stories.
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Dealing with race is about educating white folks.
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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.
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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?
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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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Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep.
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The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry.
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