"I think we had quite enough capitalism in the last eight years; I think we need some regulation now."
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"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."
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"What I want to know is why in the world the Democratic party leadership is supporting the president's unilateral attack on Iraq?"
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"I don't care what you label me as long as you call me president."
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"People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world."
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"This is a struggle between good and evil and we're the good?"
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"I may be controversial, but my allegiance is to people outside the Beltway."
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"My view is Fox News is a propaganda outlet for the Republican Party and I don't comment on Fox News."
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"Barry Goldwater once said, "I'd rather be right than president." I can't tell you how much I disagree with that Barry Goldwater."
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"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."
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"I talked for a long time about that, what I call the hate wing of the Republican Party.And often been criticized for saying it. But there is such a thing, and it started in 1968 with the southern strategy developed by Richard Nixon to bring southern racists out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party, which they succeeded in doing."
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"It is true that there`s an economic argument and an economic feeling that something different needs to happen and politicians talking out of both sides of their mouth and all that kind of stuff."
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"I have a great sense of humor, but it has an ironic twist to it."
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"You can't make Howard Dean a straw man. He is what he appears to be. And that's the beauty of Howard Dean."
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"We won when we toppled Saddam. That was the only clear goal of this war, to topple the Iraqi government. It took about 10 minutes."
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"Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated by definition. We would be humiliated in that defeat."
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"I learned that the American people are pretty great people. And they are just poorly served by their leadership, and Washington's very much out of touch with the struggles of ordinary Americans. My hope is that we'll have a Democratic Administration, and then we'll hold their feet to the fire so they start performing for people who put them there."
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"I wish that there was a unified Democratic position on the war in Iraq. I was that there was a unified American position and everybody agreed with me that we ought to be out of there yesterday. But they don't, and that's the fact. I mean, he's stating a fact about what's going on."
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"I'm not against the Hanukkah songs. I like Hanukkah songs. I grew up with Hanukkah songs. I'm not opposed to Hanukkah or the songs that accompany it, at all."
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"I'm not attacking liberals with a broad brush."
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