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Howard Dean

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Howard Dean is a prominent figure in the Democratic Party, best known for his tenure as the Governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003. During his time in office, he focused on healthcare reform, environmental issues, and fiscal responsibility, earning a reputation for his progressive policies. Dean played a significant role in the national political landscape as the chair of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009, where he was instrumental in the party's grassroots organizing efforts and the development of the '50-state strategy' aimed at increasing Democratic presence across the country.

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Sep 7, 2021

You can`t let the fact that you`re angry, cost you your life.

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Sep 7, 2021

People are angry. And they`re angry because their station in life is tough, and the rural America is falling apart.

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Sep 7, 2021

I would call that leadership. If you make a mistake, you take it back, and you admit that you have made a mistake.

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Sep 7, 2021

These politicians are using this to advantage themselves, at the expense of the people who voted for them.

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Sep 7, 2021

It`s a lie. It affects an enormous number of people.

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Sep 7, 2021

They don`t deserve to be in office, because they`re not leaders. They are sycophants.

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Sep 7, 2021

And it started with Trump, who capitalized on people`s fears and ignorance. And then it`s been continued by people like DeSantis and Greg Abbott.

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Aug 29, 2021

A lot of the people who are against vaccination, I think, are not particularly anti-science. I think they`re just angry people. Most of them voted for Trump.

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Aug 29, 2021

Mike DeWine deserves mentioned as the very conservative Republican governor who did the right thing right from the beginning.

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Aug 29, 2021

I think they made a big gamble on politics. They thought they could rally the anti-vaxxers and their -- and that was their constituency.

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Aug 29, 2021

I give Biden an enormous amount of credit for stopping the war. And I think, six or eight months from now, he is going to be seen as the guy who got us out of 20 years of war.

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Aug 29, 2021

The way we have gone about it is completely crazy.

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Aug 29, 2021

We can’t impose democracy on others. They have to want it.

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Aug 29, 2021

I give Biden a lot of credit for getting us out.

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Aug 26, 2021

This started with the election of Trump, who exploited our divisions and our disagreements with each other.

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Aug 26, 2021

I think, if I were Joe Biden, I would push FDA and CDC as hard as I could to take an emergency action and allow vaccines to go to the schoolkids.

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Aug 26, 2021

We have a vaccine that’s good, but against Delta, it’s not as good as we had hoped.

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Aug 26, 2021

This guy’s putting their children’s lives at risk. We’re going to have dead kids all over Florida in these districts that are following DeSantis. It is outrageous.

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Aug 26, 2021

This guy is not competent to serve in any capacity. You can’t - - if you’re the governor, you can’t do that. Once in a while, you have to understand that the public pays your salary and that you owe them your best, not some political…

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Aug 26, 2021

Well, I’m actually just shocked by DeSantis. I never thought I’d say this, but I think he may be more of a lunatic than Trump ever was. I mean, Trump has finally come around to understanding that the best thing he can do for his own…

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Aug 22, 2021

Yes, I think it`s important that he did that. And I think it was important that he said that in front of his core followers who he has created a tremendous amount of pain in.

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Aug 18, 2021

Biden is right. I don’t like what’s happening. But Biden is right. Four successive administrations have screwed this up by making friends with the wrong people.

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Aug 10, 2021

I just don`t like crackpots and I don`t like crackpot who espouse crackpot theories for their own benefit like Donald Trump, like Greg Abbott, and like Ron DeSantis.

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Aug 10, 2021

Nineteen people just -- in the Republican Party just voted for Joe Biden`s infrastructure bill. That should tell you --

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Aug 10, 2021

These men don`t give a damn about America and they don`t give a damn about anybody but themselves.

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