Howard Dean Quotes

"I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found."

"that is going to be a mistake."

"This is a time for justice tempered with mercy and understanding.  There is no evidence of either in Judge Roberts' career. The president should be denied this nomination."

"He can no longer be trusted to keep America safe."

"We can take back America and stand up for working families and middle-class families again, and take our government back for the people who built it instead of corporations and special interests -- and we will."

"We ought to go back to Bill Clinton's taxes because most people in America would gladly pay the taxes we paid when Bill Clinton was president, if only we could have the same economy we had when Bill Clinton was president."

"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."

"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,"

"There has been enough of fear, incompetence and corruption."

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

"The Senate has a duty to fully and fairly judge Roberts' record and qualifications, but how can it possibly do that when the White House has been sloppy or just plain uncooperative in providing information?"

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

"raises serious concerns about the ability of this administration to protect the safety of our nation's food supply."

"but none of them can engender the enthusiasm and the ability to raise money. ... None of them have the record that I have of actually being in the chair, making the tough decisions and standing up for what you believe and paying a price."

"This is an administration that has a fundamental problem telling the truth."

"It's worse than the television pictures."

"I hate to totally gild the lily, but in fact our second-place finishes are stronger than any we've had since New Hampshire, ... We're starting to come back."

"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."

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