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