My energy level is very high ... how ambitious it all is depends on lots of different things. But pretty high energy level. I take on a lot of projects at the same time.

You can't make Howard Dean a straw man. He is what he appears to be. And that's the beauty of Howard Dean.

How much courage does it take for Dean to throw red meat to the party faithful?

I intend to talk about race during this election in the South because the Republicans have been talking about it since 1968 in order to divide us. And I'm going to bring us together. Because you know what? You know what? White folks in the South who drive pickup trucks with Confederate flag decals in the back ought to be voting with us and not them, because their kids don't have health insurance either and their kids need better schools too.

I may be controversial, but my allegiance is to people outside the Beltway.

The capture of Saddam has not made America safer.

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.