Howard Dean

Howard Dean
Howard Brush Dean IIIis an American politician who served as the 79th Governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003 and Chair of the Democratic National Committeefrom 2005 to 2009. Dean was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the U.S. Presidential Election, 2004. His implementation of the fifty-state strategy as head of the DNC, as well as his campaigning methods during the 2004 presidential campaign, are considered significant factors behind Democratic victories in the 2006 congressional elections and the 2008...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth17 November 1948
CityEast Hampton, NY
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.
Each of their surprise disclosures has contained additional reasons for concern about whether Roberts would use his lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court to be an activist for an ideological agenda or an advocate for Americans' personal freedom.
This campaign is simply going to offer something different than everybody else, ... I'll stand up for what I believe in, whether it's right or whether it's popular.
I think the Democrats are going to have to think long and hard, as the hearings progress, about whether we should support him.
My view is if you've lived here for a significant period of time -- whether you're undocumented or documented -- and you have contributed to your community, you have never been arrested or gone to jail or any of that stuff, and you've paid your taxes and worked hard, that you ought to have a path to earn legalization of citizenship and so forth.
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.
We have to come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age and economics played a significant role in who survived and who did not. And this question, 40 and 50 years after Dr. King and the civil rights movement, is, 'How could this still be happening in America?'
The pundits in Washington have been talking about me as the front-runner for a long time,
we saw people desperately trying to survive conditions that not one of us could imagine would ever happen in an American city.
The school buses were controlled by the school board, not the mayor, ... You can't blame the mayor for that.
I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found.
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?
I understand it?s always better to have a lot of passion around an election. But what more passion could we possibly invoke than stopping George Bush from continuing to destroy the country?
They are a mistake. The middle class never got a tax cut for us to defend,