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

Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right.

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

Every single American has a voice and ... it ought to be heard in the halls of power every day.

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

I think the recovery hasn't been stronger because the hole that was dug for President Obama by the Bush administration was far worse than anybody could imagine, first of all.

This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.