Howard Dean Quotes

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

I analyze people's ideology, and I know leftists and liberals like the back of my hand.

There's something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on the Left picture an inspired liberal, politically restrained in his first term but now free to pursue his true beliefs.

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.

The idea that liberal societies are bound together by philosophical beliefs seems to me to be ludicrous. Philosophy is not that important to politics.

There are only two kinds of politics. They are not radical or reactionary, or conservative and liberal, or even Democratic and Republican. There are only the politics of fear and the politics of trust.

[George W.] Bush is the only force of evil in the world that liberals haven’t wanted to appease.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted — in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest — at the command — of his head.

I don't pick my friends based on politics.

The media will not admit that Trump's America and Sanders' America are as different as Venus and Mars: they represent a very polarized America with two different answers to the question, 'Who are we?'

I don't know what Russell Moore's politics really are. I don't know if he is a closet liberal or if he is a conservative.

Left, right, populism... all are meaningless concepts.

I am still puzzled why those in the United States who truly believe in liberty should not only have allowed the left to appropriate this almost indispensable term but should even have assisted by beginning to use it themselves as a term of opprobrium. This seems to be particularly regrettable because of the consequent tendency of many true liberals to describe themselves as conservatives.

I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.

There's a whole industry of conservatives saying, 'Ah, it's those damn liberals,' and a whole group of liberals saying, 'It's all those damn conservatives.'.

Bush is no conservative.

I can't go out with a Republican.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

I'm flattered by the fact that most people tell me they don't know what my politics are.