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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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The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong.
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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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The Republicans are all about suppressing votes.
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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'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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Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.
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I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.
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The French will always do exactly the opposite on what the United States wants regardless of what happens, so we're never going to have a consistent policy.
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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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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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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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I learned that the American people are pretty great people. And they are just poorly served by their leadership, and Washington's very much out of touch with the struggles of ordinary Americans. My hope is that we'll have a Democratic Administration, and then we'll hold their feet to the fire so they start performing for people who put them there.
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Most Christmas carols have no obvious religious content, or at least that's noticeable to most people. I mean, it is almost by definition, a cultural phenomenon, all these songs, even though they point to this very religious holiday. They're not religious songs in effect anymore.
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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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We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.
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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.
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You have the power to take our country back.
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I'm not against the Hanukkah songs. I like Hanukkah songs. I grew up with Hanukkah songs. I'm not opposed to Hanukkah or the songs that accompany it, at all.
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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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Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York! And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House, Yeeeeeaaaaaargh!
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