You can't make Howard Dean a straw man. He is what he appears to be. And that's the beauty of Howard Dean.

I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

I was hoping to get a reception like this, I'd just hoped that it would be on Thursday night instead of Tuesday night.

I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

We know that no one person can succeed unless everybody else succeeds.

I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called.

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

I think the recovery hasn't been stronger because the hole that was dug for President Obama by the Bush administration was far worse than anybody could imagine, first of all.

The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club.

We all draw breath and life from the same source of creation.

We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us.

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

There is a lie in between a promise and many excuses.

It doesn't matter what others are doing. It matters what you are doing.

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.

A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

Momma gettin' older feelin' pains In her shoulder. I gotta stay focused and remain a little soldier.

Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot.