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 need to find a way to respect each other, trust each other and work together to solve the long-term challenges America faces,
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,
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,
I told him we needed to try to work better together and I would try to make that happen, ... And he seemed positive about it.
This is war. And we will do everything in our power together to make sure that terrorists never, ever again can create this mayhem, this chaos, this violence against our people and our country.
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.
We walked to demonstrate our deep displeasure at the action of the majority party; they disregarded the clear will of the majority of the American people,
I voted for the Reagan tax cut (in 1981). It was a mistake, ... We have to learn from history. It was a worthy experiment, but it was a mistake and ... we don't want to make it again.
seems high to me, because once you get above the levels where the president was in his budget, you really are in the area where you're starting to raise premiums.
We should all follow the rule of law, and I'm positive the vice president will do that and I think George Bush will do that, ... This Week.
We must stop this deadly disease at our borders at all cost. It's the government's highest responsibility to keep Americans safe. That includes the food at our grocery stores,
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.
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.