On George Felix Allen, Jr
"I served with George Felix Allen when he was Governor. I don't think he belongs in public service. There are Republicans who are capable and smart - thoughtful people - and he's not one of them. "
On Sore Loserman
"Ned Lamont is a Democrat. Joe is the past and I think we need a new direction in this country and it's not just the Lieberman Lamont race. It's all over the country. People are looking for a new direction for the country. "
On McCain's Phoniness
"You know how everybody leaves the ship once it heads in the wrong direction. McCain was a huge booster of the war, until now I guess things are getting hot in the kitchen, so he decided to get out. "
On Shrub's "Press Conference"
"You don't make a permanent commitment to a failed policy. "
On Gooper Sanity
"I don't pretend to know what goes on inside Senator McCain's mind or the President. "
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On Katrina
"I think Katrina -- the response to Katrina was effectively the end to the President's presidency in the sense that people all of a sudden saw the small man behind the curtain.
People in America and throughout the rest of the world for a long time have believed that Americans can fix anything, that we're better organized and better managed -- managed better than anybody, and that if something really awful happens, call on the Americans.
And for the first time in our lifetime and in the world's lifetime, since World War II -- since before World War II -- we suddenly saw an American president just descend into failure.
And I don't think he's ever recovered from that."
On Iraq and Viet Nam and Bush and NIXON
DEAN: This is exactly what was going on in Vietnam. And the President and the Vice President are saying exactly what Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew said again and again and again. It resulted in 25,000 more Americans being killed in Vietnam, and the result was the same as it would have been had we left earlier.
This is wishful thinking on the part of the President. They never thought this out.
I can remember the secretary of defense saying the whole world would be paid for by Iraqi oil. The vice president was saying we'd be greeted as liberators.
These folks are fundamentally out of touch with what's going on in Iraq and they're fundamentally out of touch with the needs of the American people. And we need a new direction in this country, Wolf, and we're going to have a new direction after November.
BLITZER: But as you know, a lot of Democrats, especially Democratic senators, are also saying the U.S. should try to finish the job and not set an artificial deadline for getting out.
DEAN: Finishing the job? The job was finished. We went in there to get rid of Saddam Hussein. We got rid of him. Then we decided we were going to occupy the country, and then we decided that we would try to mitigate a civil war, which we're now in.
The problem is, the job, as far as the President keeps defining it, is a moving target. He doesn't know what the job is. He doesn't know what the end point is.
The idea that we're going to have a democracy that looks like America was a ridiculous right wing neo-con idea from the beginning.
They're out of touch.
Most of them have never served in the army and the ones that have rarely served abroad defending the country.
On the State of the Union
"Tthe country fundamentally wants a different direction. The Republicans are just going to give us more of the same.
We want a new direction in the economy, we want a new direction in health care, we want a new direction in foreign policy, we want a new direction in Iraq, we want a new direction for gas prices. We need a new direction. You can't get that by voting for Republicans. "