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I'm tired of the ayatollahs of the right wing. We're fighting for freedom in Iraq. We're going to fight for freedom in America.

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
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Howard Brush Dean III
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Barry Goldwater once said, I'd rather be right than president. I can't tell you how much I disagree with that Barry Goldwater.
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I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.
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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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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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