A biography for Howard Deanhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.”
“I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.”
“There's not one person in this crowd who's gonna agree with everything I say. Not one.”
“When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.”
“This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.”
“This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.”
“The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry.”
“I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head. That's the only chance we have against George Bush.”
“We won't always have the strongest military.”
“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.”
“Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep.”
“I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.”
“So what we - all we really want, I think, from the so-called Democratic wing of the Democratic Party is really to stand up for what we believe in.”
“The idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.”
“I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.”
“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.”
“So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle.”
“Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.”
“From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.”