Howard Dean Quotes

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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?"

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

"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."

"is playing with fire."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."