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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This is not something where I go off and make decisions. I have to talk to my colleagues, talk with the caucus. We have an ethics process in this House that has to be respected. We're going to do these things in the right way,
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This could have been a bipartisan bill, but the White House squandered that opportunity, ... Instead, what we have is a Republican bill, a bill that will now go into an endless conference committee. This is exactly what the HMOs want.
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This administration needs to stop behaving like the United States of Saudi Arabia and it needs to start mobilizing international pressure to get Saudi Arabia to stop funding, training and breeding global terror in the first place,
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This is a national emergency. This is a national crisis, and we cannot worry about what the budgetary costs are. We have to get this done,
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This is a Bart Simpson Congress: underachievers and proud of it.
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This is a bad bill. It is not worthy of passing, ... It is all focused on production ... and it's not paid for -- and that, in and of itself, is enough reason to vote against this bill.
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I think you can disagree with someone and still deeply respect them and like them, as I like the president and respect the president,
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I think we've got to try our best to come together, to collaborate, try to move this budget in the right direction and get the country out of recession and start building stable, good jobs for American people.
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I think we've got to stop parsing words and trying to be anything other than accurate about what this is, ... This is highly sophisticated material. It is small in size and it aerosolizes.
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I think the most important thing in life, and certainly politics, is credibility, ... If you want to be credible, you have to be straightforward, and I think that was damaged.
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It is a weekly, and now daily, drumbeat of rollbacks of hard-fought and hard-won progress to protect the air and the water and the wilderness and the environment of this country, ... This is the most alarming rollback in environmental efforts that we have ever seen.
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I think there's a sense of urgency about getting this done and getting it done by next Tuesday when the president would have to start vetoing bills if it's not done,
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It certainly wasn't an intentional mistake, ... No one understood that the machinery at the post office and the way it worked might tend to get this stuff in the air.
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Our bill recognizes that we are in a period of economic uncertainty, so we give people immediate tax relief, which we think will help them get through this uncertain time,