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
My parents wanted me to be a Baptist minister. I was a youth minister in my church when I was still in college. And I was in a lot of theater in high school, and at Northwestern.
You don't lock into a ten-year family budget. You take it a year at a time - maybe even six months at a time. And then if the income really comes in the way you hope it does, then you can make some of those expenditures that you've been waiting to make. We think that same principle should apply to the national family we call America.
We strongly object to this matter coming up tomorrow or the next day or any day in which our young men and women in the military are in harm's way,
President Bush's public relations cover-up for the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover isn't working. The American people see right through it,
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.
I think people in the days ahead are going to really wonder what has happened on those issues.
It is only their insistence on tax cuts for the wealthy, to be funded by Medicare cuts or changes in the CPI, that we don't have a budget,
suffers badly by being only about increased penalties and not enough about both increased penalties and worrying about how to prevent crimes before they happen.
NATO had no choice but to deter this aggression and prevent the slaughter of innocent civilians.
We need a leader who can defeat George Bush in November in the general election, and we need a leader who we all know can walk into that Oval Office tomorrow afternoon and be a great president of the United States. That leader is John Kerry, and I'm proud to endorse him to be the president of the United States of America.
Members understand the importance of what is being done here and they want to do it right,
will cause the parties, and the court, to go back and see if they can come up with an appropriate, sensible agreement.
I said, 'This is a matter of life and death, and we've got to do our best to work together to keep our people safe.' And I've really tried to do that. I found him to be hard to help.
It is significant when you have a president at a 65 percent rating. That is unusual, ... I think some of it is related to 9/11 and the people's reactions -- the people's desire to be united with the president in fighting against these issues, in trying to solve these issues.