Howard Dean President Quotations

I don't care what you label me as long as you call me president.

This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.

I think most people... would be glad to pay the same taxes they paid when Bill Clinton was president, if only they could have the same economy they had when Bill Clinton was president.

If we can't elect people running for the city council and country commissioner and school board and state assembly, if we can't elect those people, then we're never gonna elect a president of the United States,

When we set this event up, ... I had absolutely no idea that we were going to have the elected president of the United States here with us today.

Sixty percent of us got $304. Has your property taxes gone up more than $304 because the president cut cops on the beat, refused to fund special education, refused to fund ""no child left behind?

I came to speak with President Carter over a year and a half ago, because he did what I hope to do in Iowa tomorrow night, ... I really appreciate the lesson you have given, the path you have blazed.

President Bush faces a serious test of leadership. Will he keep his pledge to hold his administration to high ethical standards and give the American people what they deserve, and will he answer to the American people for these serious missteps?

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.

Rising interest rates, rising debt and fewer good-paying jobs are making it harder for America's families to make ends meet, ... The president should use his Texas vacation to spend time overhauling his economic policies, not staging photo-ops.

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.

The president has abundant reason to fire Karl Rove.

The president has a moral obligation to rein in the right-wing extremists in his party and stop this divisive rhetoric about immigrants.

We know that the president wasn't truthful with us when he sent us to Iraq,

To use a Texas expression, President Bush is all hat and no cattle when it comes to education.

We all want the president to succeed. But the president hasn't succeeded. I think that is because he has a lack of vision and, frankly, he hasn't been truthful with the American people.

While he is in Boise, Vice President Cheney ought to explain why the Bush administration sold out the Idaho sugar industry,

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 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.

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.

This is not so much about Scooter Libby and Karl Rove. This is about the fact that the president didn't tell us the truth when we went to Iraq, and all these guys are involved in it.

I've gotten to know John Kerry since the primaries. The reason I'm going out and working my you know what off for John Kerry is because I believe him. I believe he'll be a good president and a much better president than George Bush.

if the president wants to get this nomination through, with all the flak he's getting from the right wing, he needs to waive executive privilege.

I'm running for president because the only way to beat George Bush is to stand up to him.

Democrats have been fighting for energy independence years before President Bush 's first day in office, while this administration has offered only lip service, and only when its poll numbers resemble (president Richard) Nixon's.

Iraq was not an imminent threat to the United States. It turned out they did not have the weapons of mass destruction that people thought they did, myself included. It turned out that much of what the president told us was not so.

If you want a president who is going to get results, I suggest that you look at somebody who did get results in my state,

I'll stand up for what I believe in whether it's popular or not, and I think that is lacking in this country. What you're seeing now, not only on the part of President Bush but on the part of the Democrats as well, is they'll promise you a tax cut and health insurance and lower college tuition and fully funded special education. Look, you can't do that. You couldn't do that in your house. You can't spend money on stuff you don't have.

Apparently, Governor Schwarzenegger has ripped a page from President Bush's re-election playbook, ... Rule number one in the 'Bush-Rove Guide to Running on a Record of Failure' is to demonize groups of people and use them to divide the electorate by rallying the extremists in your base. It's the only way to explain Governor Schwarzenegger's promise to veto the California marriage equality bill after pledging just last year to support equal rights and responsibilities for California's LGBT families if approved by the courts or the legislature.

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.

A strong Mexico means a strong America, and our ties must not be based on the petulance of the president of the United States.

This president cares more about corporations than he does about the people of the United States of America.. and we're gonna change that.

It looks like today, and this could change, as of today it looks like women will be worse off in Iraq than they were when Saddam Hussein was president of Iraq

Barry Goldwater once said, 'I'd rather be right than president.' I can't tell you how much I disagree with that Barry Goldwater.

The truth is the President of the United States used the same device that Slobodan Milosevic used in Serbia. When you appeal to homophobia, when you appeal to sexism, when you appeal to racism, that is extraordinarily damaging to the country.

There are definitely some people who cheat, but how come we're only focusing on people who are on welfare who cheat, and not the bank presidents who cheat?

What I want to do more than anything as president of the United States is to restore the honor and dignity and respect that this country is owed around the world.

What I want to know is what in the world so many Democrats are doing supporting the President's unilateral intervention in Iraq?

I think the recovery hasn't been stronger because the hole that was dug for President Obama by the Bush administration was far worse than anybody could imagine, first of all.