Dick Gephardt
Dick Gephardt
Richard Andrew "Dick" Gephardtis an American politician who served as a United States Representative from Missouri from 1977 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he was House Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995 and Minority Leader from 1995 to 2003. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1988 and 2004. Gephardt was mentioned as a possible vice presidential nominee in 1988, 1992, 2000, 2004, and 2008...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 January 1941
CountryUnited States of America
I've always had good energy; I've always had good health.
I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.
When I'm president, we'll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day
I've thought a lot about the world and how George Bush sees the world and it ain't even close.
I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.
I think when everything is finally considered, I'll have a lot of support -- strong support -- not only from labor unions but from working people.
I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.
We are all so privileged to be citizens of America, and we all need to be engaged.
The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.
And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'
We can see beyond the present shadows of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the strong work together to deter and stop aggression. This was precisely Franklin Roosevelt's and Winston Churchill's vision for peace for the post-war period.
Our democracy if self-cleansing. If you don't like it, be a candidate, or support a candidate.
You know, when you're in public life, everything you do is out there. But I am proud to stand on my record.
The people I'm honored to represent in Missouri and all over the country want leaders to address their kitchen table everyday problems.