Howard Dean Quotations | Page 4

I was hoping to get a reception like this, I'd just hoped that it would be on Thursday night instead of Tuesday night.

You can't make Howard Dean a straw man. He is what he appears to be. And that's the beauty of Howard Dean.

I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials.

As governor, I came to believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain, especially heinous crimes, such as the murder of a child or the murder of a police officer. The events of September 11 convinced me that terrorists also deserve the ultimate punishment.

You think people can work all day and then pick up their kids at child care or wherever and get home and still manage to sandwich in an eight-hour vote? Well Republicans, I guess can do that. Because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives.

What I usually do is tell funny stories from the road, many of which are, of course, unprintable. But I don't actually have a joke. I don't tell jokes much. I tell little stories.

Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York! And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House, Yeeeeeaaaaaargh!

Is this so-called [Republican Party] hate wing that is so angry at all the things that have - all the changes that have happened in America, this is what they respond to.And I think it`s dangerous for the country, I also think it`s going to be incredibly unsuccessful in the general election.

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

I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.

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.

This is not about a third rate burglary of the Watergate. This is about undermining the security of America and it is about misleading the American people.

This is all about who gets the most delegates in Boston in July, and it's going to be us,

The evidence is very clear. Half the stuff the president told us about Iraq -- the weapons of mass destruction, the trip to Niger, the purchase of uranium, and all that stuff -- we know that's not true.

The entire race has come down to this: We must win Wisconsin,

The election of Roy Blunt, which seems likely, is going to give us an enormous opportunity.

The DNC is concerned and disappointed that the Baker-Carter Commission on Federal Election Reform, over the strong dissent of some of its most distinguished members, has seen fit to support a 'national ID card' that threatens to deny the right to vote to millions of citizens who are lawfully registered and eligible to do so.

You work and you work and you work.

The media claims that this contest is already over. They say that Wisconsin's voice doesn't count, that your vote doesn't count. They expect you to rubber stamp everybody else's choice,