“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.”

– Howard Dean in an interview with the Des
Moines Register when running for the Democratic
Presidential nomination, November 1, 2003

“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.”

– Howard Dean speaking at the Campaign
for America’s Future, June 2, 2005

“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!”

– Howard Dean from his Iowa concession speech, January 2004

“Now that we’re on dog pee, we can have an interesting conversation about that. I do not recommend drinking urine…but if you drink water straight from the river, you have a greater chance of getting an infection than you do if you drink urine.”

– Howard Dean to a classroom in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, 2004