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
Harry Truman was willing to do things that were extraordinarily unpopular because they were the right things to do,
Karl Rove breached our national security for partisan gain and that is unpatriotic and wrong.
Hard-working Americans will see through this President's effort to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.
That's how we're going to fix Medicare, is to get somebody who has executive experience in governing, particularly in health care, ... With me, you'll get results, because I'm a governor and I've done it.
There was no middle-class tax cut, ... I don't know which is worse -- that he wants to repeal the tax cuts, or that he won't admit that they ever existed.
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.
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.
Luckily, I'm a governor -- so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.
The DNC is concerned and disappointed that the Baker-Carter Commission on Federal Election Reform, over the strong dissent of some of its most distinguished members, has seen fit to support a 'national ID card' that threatens to deny the right to vote to millions of citizens who are lawfully registered and eligible to do so.
Maine folks are just like Vermont people -- they're very independent. And that's a great place to start the turnaround,
Mr. President, where are the weapons that you told us about?
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,
This is a bill that ought never to have been passed, and this is why I am running for president,
If the American people will put us back in power in '06, we will have on the president's desk things that outlaw all those kinds of behavior.