Howard Dean Quotes

There are voices in the Republican Party today who preach pragmatism, who champion conciliation, who counsel compromise. I stand here today to reject those deceptions.

I was raised a Republican but I don’t recognize a once proud party that has been hijacked by extremists who are driving it off the flat earth that they pretend we are living on.

The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.

I honestly don't see how anyone can view the GOP and the Right as anything but evil.

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

They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

There is a segment of the right that doesn't care about winning, what I call zealotry masquerading as principle.

George W. Bush … was ideologically obsessed.

The liberals of both the Democratic and Republican Parties are the instruments of Satan to destroy the former great principles of these two political parties.

People at the political extremes have an advantage over the rest of us. Only they seem to know exactly who and what is wrong with America and precisely what policies and programs should be adopted to fix it.

The political Right is particularly vehement when it comes to compromise. Conservatives are now strongly swayed by the Tea Party movement, whose clarion call is a refusal to compromise regardless of the practical consequences.

In the Republican party, crazy is a constituency.

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

I am not a centrist.

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it.

I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

I do not believe that our place is at the comfortable mid-point between the extremes of left and right.

The right hand doesn’t know what the far right hand is doing.

In New York, the opposite of a Democrat is not a Republican; it’s a Fascist.