Howard Dean: Self

Quotes 

• Howard Dean : I will never send our sons and daughters to die in a foreign country without telling the American people the truth about why they're going. When are the Democrats going to stand up and be Democrats again? I'll tell you when. You see this flag? This flag doesn't belong to John Ashcroft and the right wing of the Republican Party. This flag belongs to the people of the United States of America. And we're going to take it back. That's what we're going to do. We're going to take it back.

• Candy Crowley : Joe Trippi was the character of the Dean campaign.

  Joe Trippi : It would really bother the Governor to be doing that.

  Candy Crowley : But you get the sense that Howard Dean was quite aware of that.

  Howard Dean : Haven't I done a great job managing Trippi's campaign for president? Aren't I...

  [laughter] 

  Candy Crowley : You perhaps had a couple alpha males that circled each other.

  Joe Trippi : You want to jump in? Go ahead.

  Howard Dean : I don't want to interrupt anything. You're the guy who ought to be on the cover of "Time."

• Howard Dean : I was the supposed front-runner according to "Time" and "Newsweek" for a long time. But guess what? The voters get to decide who the front-runner is. I'm glad I am still in the race.