The pundits in Washington have been talking about me as the front-runner for a long time,

We have already raced past all expectations. We now have the opportunity to truly shock the press and the pundits with our show of grass-roots strength, … If we raise $6.5 million in the second...

A lot of us want to see ‘Dean for America’ evolve into something more, something that helps more Democrats win elections based on the message we created, … The campaign has changed the party so...

Clearly, House Republicans are more concerned with papering over their ethics scandals than in ending the culture of corruption.

Real Democrats don’t make promises they can’t keep.

It ain’t a down day now,

The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put interests of his political party ahead of America’s security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep...

U.S. beef producers are the best in the world, and I have full confidence in their ability to produce a high quality and safe product,

One of the reasons there are so few heroes is because the willingness to succeed in politics by any means necessary has become an art form.

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,

They clearly tried to gin up every piece of intelligence to try to get us to go into that war,

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.

Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust republicans with your money.

part of the solution, not part of the problem. … We need a change from the same old Washington insiders who got us into this mess.

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.

Not only are we going to New Hampshire … we’re going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, … We’re going to California and Texas and New York. We’re...

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

Democrats are the only party to have balanced the budget in America in the last 38 years. We will do it again.

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

Here is why we’re going to keep going and going and going and going and going, just like the Energizer bunny, … We’re going to pick up some delegates tonight, and this is all about...

Sending delegates to the convention only continues to energize our party. Fight on in the caucuses; we are on the ballots,

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,

He’s clearly not going to take more votes away from George Bush than he is from John Kerry,

The way we’re going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we’re going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in.

Mr. President, where are the weapons that you told us about?

[At the end of a TV campaign ad, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards says:] I’m John Edwards and I approve this message. … I’m Howard Dean and I approved this message because it’s time to...

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

America had a great victory this week in the war on terror. Key Democratic senators and representatives forced President Bush to give up the idea that six major American ports should be run by a...

Foreign policy expertise depends on patience and judgment, … I question Senator Kerry’s judgment when he voted ‘no’ in 1991 and ‘yes’ [in 2002]. I think it should be the other way around.

I think we can pick up between five and seven. This is going to be a national election if I have anything to do with it: a national referendum on whether you want Republicans to...

What the propagandists on the right have done is make people afraid to say they are Democrats,

Sixty percent of Americans at the bottom [of the tax scale] got $325, … Whatever they got out there in tax cuts, the majority of Americans saw property taxes go up and tuition go up...

You have already got the picture here, … I was about to say I’m sure there’s some disappointed people here.

planned to go to war all along.

Voters all across the country delivered a resounding message: Americans are tired of the politics of hate and divisiveness, and voted for strong Democratic candidates who offered true leadership for their states and communities.

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can’t beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats.

Ralph Nader has contributed an enormous amount to this country, and, for some inexplicable reason, he seems determined to wreck his legacy. I think he’s hell-bent to do this.

[Dean also started airing a new TV ad in Iowa yesterday that challenges his rivals on prescription drugs.] Seniors today are getting clobbered by prescription drug costs, … But instead of fixing the problem, the...

In a page ripped right out of the playbook used by President Bush and the Republicans in Washington, Gov. Fletcher has brought the Republican Party’s culture of corruption to Kentucky,

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...

He is a good guy, but I truly believe he is a Republican.

He can no longer be trusted to keep America safe.

We will only win when we show up and fight for the issues important to all of us,

The problem is, it works. It appeals to the worst instincts of the American people so both sides use it. There’s not much high mindedness in politics because you couldn’t survive. If you did, someone...

I’m not going to play the game anymore.

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,

If the president had taken the advice of his military men before he went there instead of showing us his strategic plan for Iraq three years after he got there, he would be better off...

nothing short of outrageous.

In December, when we were just getting pounded by every other candidate, I asked Terry to step in because I thought it was getting kind of destructive, … Terry decided to be neutral, so I...

Sadly, the federal government’s lack of preparation followed by its inept response had deadly consequences for far too many Americans in Katrina’s path. The American people are counting on their leaders in Washington, D.C., to...