Howard Dean Quotes

You can say you're a liberal and everybody laughs and it's a good time.

Yes, I'm proud to be a liberal.

I don’t think I’m all that conservative.

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

I myself have not met a self‐confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from the middle class or the Middle West, those two gloomy seedbeds of talent), yet hardly a day passes that I don't read another attack on the “typical liberal” — as it might be announcing a pest of dinosaurs or a plague of unicorns.

A liberal Republican is a contradiction in terms ... a moderate Republican is a liberal who doesn't like to call himself a liberal.

I think 'progressive' is different than 'liberal' - I know a lot of people use them interchangeably - but I think I'm far more progressive than I am liberal.

Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.

Liberals have many tails and chase them all.

I can tell any liberal why he or she thinks what they think. I can predict to them what their reaction to any event or person is going to be, because I know them, because I have taken the time because I'm curious to study it. I know what liberalism is. I know from where it springs and derives, and I know the vast majority of people who are liberals, what they are going to do, say, and think about.

The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.

Conservative's the last thing I am.

I want to reclaim 'liberal.' I'm a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.

Let's get the elephant out of the room. I'm a conservative Democrat.

I'm a liberal Democrat, and I state that proudly.

George W. Bush is conservative but he is not a conservative.

I think liberals have a lot of good ideas, actually. But I've been pigeonholed, and I'm quite comfortable with it.

I'm not Rebus. We're not the same. I don't even think he'd like me if we met. He'd think I was a wishy-washy liberal.

Even my conservative friends consider me conservative.

I have never knowingly dated a Republican.

Personally and politically, I'm extremely conservative for who I am, but I'm also very careful in my tone.

I'm a liberal, but I'm not biased. Seriously.

I think politics are a very personal thing.