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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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.
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We're losing a number of Capitol Police who are going to other law enforcement jurisdictions and operations, in part because of the time commitment here and, in part, because there are a lot of new opportunities, unfortunately, in the security field,
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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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Any delay would have given Saddam Hussein time to reconstitute his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and undermine international support for our efforts. It also would have been contrary to the president's commitment in November to respond militarily to future Iraqi provocations.
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Obviously, what we seek is what has been sought in the Senate, and that is a specific commitment that this will be brought up by a certain time on the floor of the House in a way that there is time for a full debate, consideration of various alternatives and an ability on the part of the House to vote on this matter before we leave.
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I do, however, respect the responsibility he has taken for his action and I am hopeful he and his family can find the peace and privacy they will need to see them through what must be a very painful time in their lives, ... It is my most fervent hope for the nation that this investigation can be brought to its long overdue conclusion, and that in the days ahead, the president and the Congress can pour our energies into a meaningful agenda for the country.
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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,
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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,
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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.
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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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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,
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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.
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NATO had no choice but to deter this aggression and prevent the slaughter of innocent civilians.
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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.