Howard Dean

there are future political considerations.

We don't have a federal government that wants to help, so I'm glad you're doing this. This is all we've got.

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

We have needed a strong, steady hand in this party.

I get pretty mad when I hear Dick Gephardt telling everyone I hate Medicare,

I hate all Republicans.

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.

One way or another, the state should afford same-sex couples equal treatment under law in areas such as health insurance, hospital visitation and inheritance rights,

The president is sleeping comfortably in Crawford, Texas, tonight, ... but there are an awful lot of Americans who are kind of sleepless these days -- they're sleepless about wondering where their job went. They're sleepless about wondering where their health insurance went or whether they are going to have health insurance. They are sleepless wondering whether their kid is going to be the next to die in Iraq.

The House Republicans couldn't afford to elect Roy Blunt, but they weren't honest enough to elect a real reformer.

A lot of them never made an honest living in their lives,

probably the most mismanaged nomination I've ever seen by the White House.

I think cutting the payroll tax is not a bad idea. We will not touch Social Security.

We have no idea what this woman's record is about. She's obviously an accomplished attorney. The question is what does she believe. We have no idea, ... This Week.

This kind of statement is hardly compassionate conservatism rather, Bennett's comments demonstrate a reprehensible racial insensitivity and ignorance.

In 2006 it's immigrants. That's what their strategy is on the Republican side divide people, scapegoat them, set them aside, point the finger at them. Well, that may be good for the Republican Party, but it's bad for America, and we're not going to do that.

In 2006, it's going to be immigrants -- that's who he is going to scapegoat next. Once again, the Republicans create a problem so they can think to come in and solve it.

It's just impossible to know how much of this is real and how much of this is politics, and I suspect there's some of both.

Work with Mexico to improve economies in rural America and rural Mexico, and you will stop the flood of people wanting to come to America.

There's no question that Rove was the one that leaked the information about the CIA agent's name.

In the last two days since I made this charge, they've been covering their you-know-what's and trying to come up with additional information, ... Anderson Cooper 360.

If it took three weeks for them to get this information, then they're not doing their job protecting the United States of America.

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

This is ridiculous. This is not the America we grew up in. This is a lack of leadership.

We forfeited the moral leadership of this world, a position that we had been in since the end of World War I, when George Bush went into Iraq unilaterally,