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
We all may be sorry if this bill doesn't contain the money the IMF needs, ... This is an important moment. Nobody will like a world in free-fall.
As I've said many times, this is the worst Congress that's ever been in the building. They have not done their work and now they want to get everything done in one bill in the last five minutes and it's not a reasonable way to act; they've been very inept in the way they've run this Congress,
I didn't notice the Senate wanting to put the House bill that we passed, twice, on their calendar, unchanged, and have no amendments on it,
A lot of the economy is psychological perception, ... And we have created the perception this bill was going to happen. If we now withdraw it because we can't get a huge tax break for corporate America in it, we're going to really cause problems in this economy.
He said ... Medicare was the worst federal program ever, ... Howard, you were agreeing with the very plan that Newt Gingrich wanted to pass, which was a $270 billion cut in Medicare.
President Bush has not yet lived up to his promise to be a reformer with results, ... During the campaign, he said he would fight for bipartisan bills with strong support from all Americans. But instead of putting people first, too often he has put special interests first.
in grave danger of weakening the world economy.
indicates to me once again that the delay wasn't to go through the committee. The delay was to allow the NRA to lobby.
In light of the gravity of the charges outlined in the guilty verdict against Mr. Traficant, I think the prudent course of action would be an immediate resignation,
These numbers are bouncing around. This is a volatile race,
I'm glad President Bush unveiled his reform ideas last week, ... but we need to go further if we really want to clean up this system.
I'm not going to say what's fashionable in our politics.
I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table, ... Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.
I have not stated in any conversation with anyone that I'm going to run for the presidential nomination.