'I hope Governor Dean will remember that he didn't get elected to be a wimp. We have been waiting a long time for someone to stand up for Democrats.' --DNC member and South Carolina state representative Gilda Cobb-Hunter, June 11, 2005 [15]

'As somebody who is a Christian myself, I don't like it when people use religion to divide, whether that is Republican or Democrat. [...] I think in terms of h…

'Dean is a raving nut bag...a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag...I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed.' --Christopher Hitchens, quoted in…

'Maybe his mother loved him, but I've never met anybody who does. He's never won anything, as best I can tell.' --Dick Cheney, June 12, 2005 [13]