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Howard Dean
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 17
Former Governor Of Vermont
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Stockbroker
East Hampton
New York
Howard Brush Dean III
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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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If you're really worried about the effect of Silent Night on the kids, you need a hobby or something, and I'm glad you're pointing that out.
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The truth is the President of the United States used the same device that Slobodan Milosevic used in Serbia. When you appeal to homophobia, when you appeal to sexism, when you appeal to racism, that is extraordinarily damaging to the country.
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What I want to know is why in the world the Democratic party leadership is supporting the president's unilateral attack on Iraq?
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I may be controversial, but my allegiance is to people outside the Beltway.
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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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How much courage does it take for Dean to throw red meat to the party faithful?
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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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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 capture of Saddam has not made America safer.
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I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called.
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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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You can't make Howard Dean a straw man. He is what he appears to be. And that's the beauty of Howard Dean.
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I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.
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Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep.
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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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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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We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.
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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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The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong.
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