Dean speaks to bloggers...you don't win because you are right.

[madfloridian]

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You win because you work harder than they do, and you appeal to higher instincts. This is from Yearly Kos last year, just a few snippets from the overall speech.

This is a movement to take America back to a better place than where it is. Back to the high ideals.

And guess what, Governor Dean, we had a big win. The DNC, the blogosphere, the activists groups like MoveOn, and PFAW, and the congressional committees.

[LoZoccolo]

1. This is what I say all the time. n/t

[IndyOp]

2. Yep. Values. Principles. Ideals. I want to work with people

who've been to the mountain.

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3. Dean is inspirational and I like the

way he thanked us at the end of Jon Stewart's Midseason Midtacular show.

When I first read these words after the 2004 primary was over I latched on to them like they were gold and guess what? :D

"It feels a hell of a lot better to try and lose than not to try at all. In any case I have to say that I don't really feel like we have lost. We only lose if we quit. There is an enormous amount of power in numbers, and we can still change this country (and that is exactly what we're going to do!)."~Governor Howard Dean~

[madfloridian]

4. And remember this speech from February 18, 2004?

This is when he dropped out of the race. He never looked back, just said we are going to form a group and keep going. I still have this on DVD.

http://www.crocuta.net/Dean/Transcript_of_Announcement_of_End_of_Campaign.htm

DEAN: Believe in yourself and we're all together, we can believe in ourselves.

Let me just say something to the younger folks here -- those of us who do not have my hair color -- one of the advantages of age -- and they're less than I thought there were when I was 25...

(LAUGHTER)

... is that you get to see things come around a second or third time.

And one of the things that I realized a long time ago is that change is very difficult. There is enormous institutional resistance to change in this country. We have seen that in this campaign as we literally terrified people sitting in their salons in Georgetown that they might have to look for work someplace else if we ever won.

(APPLAUSE)

It is natural for people to resist, but it is also inevitable that we will win.

(APPLAUSE)

DEAN: Change is difficult. You cannot expect people with great privileges taken at the expense of ordinary working people to surrender them lightly. But the history of humanity is that determined people will overcome obstacles.

And we will overcome the problems that this country is facing as a result of George W. Bush and as a result of a Washington establishment that has forgotten who sent them there."

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5. This is what happened..so true.

"And we will overcome the problems that this country is facing as a result of George W. Bush and as a result of a Washington establishment that has forgotten who sent them there."

So rampant!

Thanks for these additional words of wisdom from the Dean.

[knitter4democracy]

6. Thank you, Dr. Dean!

He tells it like it is, and gets us all pumped up! He is the reason I got involved in the Democratic Party, and I am proud he's our chairman.