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" The idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong. "
Howard Dean
Just
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" The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry. "
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" There's not one person in this crowd who's gonna agree with everything I say. Not one. "
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" I think most people... would be glad to pay the same taxes they paid when Bill Clinton was president, if only they could have the same economy they had when Bill Clinton was president. "
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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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" I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association. "
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" John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't care what you label me as long as you call me president. "
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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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" Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep. "
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" The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country. "
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" This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president. "
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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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" The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club. "
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" We have to say what we believe... whether it's popular or not. "
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" Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do. "
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" So what we - all we really want, I think, from the so-called Democratic wing of the Democratic Party is really to stand up for what we believe in. "
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" I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils. "
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" 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. "
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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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" We won't always have the strongest military. "
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" This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good. "
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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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" At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people. "
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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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