Howard Dean Quotes

"The White House wants us to have a permanent commitment to Iraq. This is an Iraqi problem. President Bush got rid of Saddam Hussein and that was a great thing, but that could have been done in a very different way."

"is playing with fire."

"Together we can stand for honesty, hard work, respect and opportunity for each American. Together America can do better."

"the capture of Saddam has not made America safer."

"A strong Mexico means a strong America, and our ties must not be based on the petulance of the president of the United States."

"The president didn't even tell the truth in his speech, ... He said that the Senate had the same intelligence that everybody else did. That was not true. He withheld some intelligence."

"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."

"One of the implications of this increased debt is that increasingly, foreigners are financing this debt, putting the American economy in the hands of foreign debt holders, just like the ports deal would have put port security in the hands of a foreign-owned government."

"anti-women, anti-labor and anti-teachers and nurses."

"[The judge also said that a] memorandum of understanding ... does not establish that any requested records are exempt from disclosure."

"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."

"It's a huge cover-up. That's what they're in trouble for,"

"President Bush has failed to put together a plan, so despite the bravery and sacrifice of our troops, we are not making the progress that we should be in Iraq."

"They are a mistake. The middle class never got a tax cut for us to defend,"

"I will take a backseat to no one in a commitment to civil rights in America."

"A larger outbreak of BSE or some other livestock disease could devastate rural economies,"

"that is going to be a mistake."

"He never actually came out and said just that. But in every speech he gave during the campaign and afterwards, he left the impression. He left the impression with 65 percent of the American people, who agreed that Saddam had something to do with 9/11. It was dishonest, what he did."

"It's worse than the television pictures."

"We get along well. He gave me some good advice. I gave him some advice on domestic policy areas,"