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Howard Dean
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 17
Former Governor Of Vermont
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Howard Brush Dean III
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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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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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I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.
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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.
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And people in America are very practical people across the political spectrum. Very conservative women want their kids, their daughters taking birth control.
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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.
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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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John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.
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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.
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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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How much courage does it take for Dean to throw red meat to the party faithful?
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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.
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George Bush calls his biggest fundraisers Rangers and Pioneers. But today, we stand together, and we call ourselves, simply, Americans.
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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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I may be controversial, but my allegiance is to people outside the Beltway.
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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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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.
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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.
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I was hoping to get a reception like this, I'd just hoped that it would be on Thursday night instead of Tuesday night.
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