Richard Gephardt
Richard 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...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 January 1941
CitySt. Louis, MO
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Vouchers drain funds from failing schools at the very moment when schools need these resources the most ... We must not allow 'reform' to erode the federal responsibility to support national priorities like helping disadvantaged students and putting a quality teacher in every classroom.
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We've got to look back on what happened and try to figure out how to do better,
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I can tell you this: We're going to pick up seats in the House and we will hope that in the next hours, and maybe days, that we will get to the magic number that we need,
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I believe we have an obligation to protect the United States by preventing him from getting these weapons and either using them himself or passing them or their components on to terrorists who share his destructive intent,
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If this happens, it is to me the beginning of moderate Republicans figuring out that there is no place for them in the modern Republican Party,
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I have enormous friendship and respect with Tom Daschle. Always have had and always will have. And I have nothing but admiration and respect for what he is trying to do with this in the Senate. As he said yesterday, it doesn't matter where you start, what matters is where you wind up. We have different bodies and we have different ways of dealing with it,
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Obviously, if he has broken rules or done something that's wrong, he will have to stand the consequences, ... Meet the Press.
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Less than 1 percent of his tax cut takes effect this year. All economists are saying it does not stimulate the economy and I would argue it would have the opposite effect,
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send the wrong signal to the world community about what our priorities and standards in trade should be.
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Shutting down the gun loophole will not solve all of the problem, but it is at least something we can do
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Mr. Pitt is not behaving in a trustworthy manner that will bring credibility back to the market and restore investor confidence, and I again urge President Bush to ask Harvey Pitt to step aside from his post today,
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My hope is that we can effectively and expeditiously receive this plan from the president, work it through the Congress, and try to make it a reality as quickly as possible,
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I'm also going to bring up the economic issues, which we believe are very important,
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We gain courage and effort and a desire to work with you from what you have done, ... We are trying to be ... half as good as you have been in what we do.