“I think Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston, where he can serve his jail sentence down there courtesy of the Texas taxpayers.”

—  Howard Dean

Transcript for May 22; Guest: Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic Party http://www.msnbc.com/id/7924139/, NBC News. Last updated 2005-05-22. Retrieved 2008-03-05.

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