Former Vermont governor and Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean addressed a luncheon Thursday of USA TODAY and Gannett News Service reporters and editors. Among his comments:
On Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark:"He's very bright, and he's a good candidate, but he's going to have to go through the mill like everybody else. Nobody's going to get a free ride here."
On trade:"We're hemorrhaging manufacturing jobs. I was a supporter of both NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and China's entry into the WTO (World Trade Organization) for strategic geopolitical reasons. But those agreements are written to favor multinational corporations at the expense of working people both in other countries and here. ... I believe that trade also requires human rights and labor standards and environmental standards that are concurrent around the world.
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On whether the United Statesis too biased in favor of Israel:"I used the word 'evenhanded,' which apparently means something in the pro-Israel community that it does not mean to ordinary people's ears. I think I've made it very clear that my position is not any different from Bill Clinton's. We've always been a strong ally of Israel; we'll continue to be a strong ally of Israel. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
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On whether he's too angry to be president:"What we're really about is not anger, it's hope.
"Is there some anger? Sure. There's a lot of anger at President Bush. The way President Bush has harmed us the most is not the 3 million jobs we've lost or the loss of face and loss of respect around the world, it's the loss of our sense of community. ... He's a very divisive president.
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