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
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We've got the biggest army on the ground. And we've connected with voters out here ... People are ready to go today. I was all over the state yesterday. We've got lots of excitement.
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I think people in the days ahead are going to really wonder what has happened on those issues.
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We in the Democratic Party feel strongly that the people in the middle, the people stuck on the bottom, are the people we need to be giving the majority of this tax cut.
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Unlike the Contract with America, which was created by Washington pollsters and insiders, Families First was developed from the grassroots up. Congressional Democrats from across the country spent months meeting with people back home, asking them what issues were important to them, and what Congress could do to make their lives a little easier.
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We've got to give people confidence to go back out and go to work, buy things, go back to the stores -- get ready for Thanksgiving, get ready for Christmas, ... Get out and be active, participate in our society.
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We think a 10 percent across-the-board cut assigns about 80 percent of the benefits to the top 20 percent of taxpayers. We'd much rather prefer targeted tax cuts that really go to people who need that tax cut for a particular reason,
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I don't think we've done enough to train ourselves and the staff and media people that are in this building for how we're going to get out of this building in the case of an attack, ... I think we need to repeatedly train for how to get out.
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My dad was a Teamster, ... I think there are a lot of working families out there that want a candidate for president and want a president that will remember the struggle that people go through every day to make a living, to raise their kids, to educate their kids, to have health care for their family.
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We have a big job of reconciling the people in Iraq. We need to pull together that international coalition that we should have gotten together a long time ago,
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We're the leaders and we've got to lead. And you lead by example. And you lead by working with people that we haven't worked so well with together in the past,
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You cannot short-circuit and push all 535 people out of the room and make the decision between two or three people. We are not going to let them run over people's right to understand what's in the bill.
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It's an outrage to the senior citizens and the people of the United States, ... We will not rest until we get that benefit in law.
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It is our view and we believe it's the view of the American people that this investigation be done as quickly as humanly possible, ... Given this will ... the choice is clear. We can resolve on a bipartisan effort to do the work that needs to be done in the next 30 days in the House or we might face two years of ongoing hearings.
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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.