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" As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there. "

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" The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in. "

Howard Dean

Stand Up

Believe

Country

" This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president. "

" This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good. "

" I've waffled before. I'll waffle again. "

" The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry. "

Howard Dean

Democrats

Senator

" Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter. "

" I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils. "

" So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Howard Dean

Business

My Own

" That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do. "

" 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. "

Howard Dean

Environment

I Am

" I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can't beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats. "

" Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do. "

" There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run. "

" I hate Republicans and everything they stand for. "

" We need to go everywhere. There is not one county in this state, I don't care how far west you go, that doesn't have Democrats. We have to be proud of who we are. "

" We have to say what we believe... whether it's popular or not. "

" I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association. "

" Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence. "

Howard Dean

Delay

Back

" We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is. "

" 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. "

" When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover. "

" From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people. "

" I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like 'Rush Limbaugh,' and we don't have to put up with that. "

" We won't always have the strongest military. "

" There's not one person in this crowd who's gonna agree with everything I say. Not one. "

" Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time. "

" The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do. "

" The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country. "