Howard Dean

We need to start talking about race to the general audience in this country.

I have long advocated that you do not lie down in front of the extreme radical right, but you hit them right back as hard as you can.

You're going to see push polling. You're going to see rumors. It is going to be a really difficult tough race. These are mean nasty people on the right side of the political equation here.

I think it is going to be ugliest race that we have seen in a long time...

The trouble the president is in is over the scandal at Abu Ghraib, the torture, it's the memo that the Justice Department wrote saying it was OK to torture people.

This is the seventh convention I've been to. I've long learned that platforms don't mean anything.

One of two people is going to be president of the United States, John Kerry or George Bush. I believe that John Kerry would be a far better president, far better in foreign affairs, far better in balancing the budget, bringing jobs back to…

Everybody knows what George Bush has done to this country: half-trillion-dollar deficits, a war with no understanding of why we're there since the president didn't tell us.

I'll support just about anybody that can help the country and anybody who's appropriate.

In the long run, negative ads also drive down President Bush's ratings.

John Kerry really does have a strong environmental policy. That was never in dispute at any time during the campaign.

If you choose to vote for Ralph Nader you're essentially electing George Bush. And we don't want to do that.

Governor Howard Dean joins me live to talk Kerry, Nader and the war, all that ahead.

I think what people's platforms are are going to make a huge difference. As we talked about in the top of the show: environment, job creation, balanced budgets, these are things that matter.

I think they're on the way to the decision not to re-elect President Bush.

John Kerry actually has participated in trying to balance the budgets, by casting a vote for Bill Clinton's balanced budget program. George Bush is running half trillion dollar deficits.

And unfortunately, for those who don't think John Kerry is quite pure enough, and I certainly had my disagreements with him during the campaign, if you choose to vote for Ralph Nader you're essentially electing George Bush.

Look, there are going to be one or two people that are going to be president of the United States: John Kerry or George Bush.

His argument makes no sense whatsoever. And he's clearly not going to take more votes away from George Bush than he is from John Kerry, which is what his argument is.

Another four years of George Bush is the end of Ralph Nader's 40-year legacy of environmentalism and consumerism. I don't understand why he's running and I wish he weren't.

This is not the year for a third party. Ralph Nader's contributed an enormous amount to this country. And for some inexplicable reason he seems determined to wreck his legacy.

Can he deliver the Nader vote to John Kerry?

But this is not the year for a third party. Ralph Nader's contributed an enormous amount to this country. And for some inexplicable reason he seems determined to wreck his legacy. Another four years of George Bush is the end of Ralph…

I guess you sell Howard Dean. I'm told you also sell Anna Nicole Smith. Have you heard complaints from any of them?

I don't want to listen to the fundamentalist preachers anymore.