Some Howard Dean quotes

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. K&R

For a true patriot and the only LEADER this party has had in decades, Dr. Howard Dean! :patriot:

[gateley]

2. K&R nt

[chill_wind]

3. Thanks. Plain spoken, unafraid truth and sanity

from a good and decent man. K & R.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

4. THIS EXERCISE SURE HAS FLUSHED OUT THE MEAN AND VICIOUS PEOPLE

VISIT ME AT http://twitter.com/NeilAbbey

[tblue]

5. I love him!!!

I love him like I wanted to love Obama, truth be told.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Thanks! K&R for Dr. Dean!

:patriot:

[madfloridian]

7. "when you trade your values in hope of winning...

"when you trade your values for the hope of winning, you end up losing and having no values -- so you keep losing."

"Moral values are also about how you treat poor people, how you treat those who are different, how you respect the opinion of others, and what you leave to your children."

"The Democratic Party, just like the Republicans, emerged from the 1990s pretty much the captive of big-money interests."

"George Bush is an inept president and the Democrats haven't stood up to him."

[madfloridian]

8. And one very apt for these times.

"The Democratic Party has for some time failed to live up to its mission of being a party for ordinary people," Dean writes. "The fatal combination of Republican cravenness and Democratic cowardice wasn't having an awful effect solely on the U.S. economy. . . . Politics as usual was smothering the American will to believe."

From 2004 in You Have the Power.

Thanks for the post with the quotes.

It reminds me of the times hubby and I felt such enthusiasm.

[democracy1st]

9. K & R listening to Dean & Obama is like night and day

[emilyg]

10. k/r

[Terra Alta]

11. Thanks for posting this!

Howard Dean is a good man, and a great American. HE is what this country needs right now!!

[madfloridian]

12. Kick

[Raine]

13. Thank God for Howard Dean

I LOVE that man! :applause: :patriot:

[laughingliberal]

14. k & r n/t

[PuraVidaDreamin]

15. Wow! And people berate him why?

He speaks for me. He should be Obama's chief of staff!

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16. Probably because he speaks truth to power. I think his bluntness is refreshing.

He reminds me of the old-style politicians; this is how it is, this is what I believe in and stand for, if you agree with me, vote for me and this is what you will get. By contast, most of today's politicians try to second-guess what the public wants to hear, just to get elected, and once they get in, they do something else entirely. Clinton did this and now Obama's doing it - they talked all populist during their campaigns, but once they got in, they catered to corporate interests. I admire someone who will bluntly state what he/she stands for, let the chips fall where they may, and then if elected, stick to those principles.

[bigwillq]

25. Because some don't agree with Dean.

That's fine. They are free to express their opinions. No need to whine and cry (like some others here) because some criticized a politician.

[FlaGatorJD]

17. Love #2 on Republican hypocrisy.

It seems like at every moment one of them are lecturing us and lathering up their base about morals,
another one is somewhere else doing the opposite.

You have to believe we'd be in a better place had 2004 gone the way it looked like it was going in the early primary.

[L0oniX]

18. K & R

[mzmolly]

19. Love that

Howard Dean. :toast:

[bigwillq]

20. K and R.

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[JNelson6563]

21. That's my man!

Loves me some Howard Dean! :toast:

[cascadiance]

22. Paging Symbolman! The time is now to "retool" this song "Don't Mess with Dr. Dean"

instead of "Don't Mess with Dr. Dream"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH17bmDzuAk&feature=related

Instead of warning the drug user the words should be warning the establishment and Korporate Amerika to not mess with Dr. Dean and the grass roots any more!

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23. K&R nt

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24. K&R nt

[Vidar]

26. K&R.

[mistertrickster]

27. If only he could have been our candidate in 2004. He might not have won,

but at least he had a message that people needed to hear, instead of "I am not Bush . . . "

[MelissaB]

28. k&R for Dr. Dean

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29. K&T n/t

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30. Howard Dean - the REAL movement leader

K/R!

[glinda]

31. And this is exactly why I started a Dean for President Group. He is a smart man.

But I don't think he would have lasted amidst all the corruption surrounding him.

[donheld]

32. Fabulous