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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Real security means keeping Medicare and Social Security strong and getting a Medicare prescription drug program. So those are some of the things that I'm going to talk about.
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Part of doing this the right way and the successful way is to put together a coalition, ... Sometimes that takes diplomatic efforts as well as military efforts to get that done.
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For the president to claim that spending -- as opposed to the tax cut -- is at the root of the problem is simply to pass the buck.
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I get frustrated when everyone on all of this is trying to infuse political motives into these decision, ... I mean, lets get serious. We're not playing games here. This is life and death.
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He is, and further than that, if he were subject to blackmail, it would have been before a lot of this stuff was publicly known,
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marketing scheme designed to make last year's unpopular tax cut more palatable.
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I suggest to members that we're making a mistake with this budget, ... It's a $2 trillion-plus tax cut that mostly goes to the richest Americans.
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I think now that it's passed, we need to let it go into being and then see the problems and then try to fix them,
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I hope now that the Administration will rethink this approach and submit a fast track bill that accounts for labor, environmental, narcotics enforcement and human rights issues.
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I plead with members, turn down this budget, and let's do a budget that doesn't send this country back into deficits,
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I'm seeking the presidency because foreign policy isn't a John Wayne movie, where we catch the bad guys, hoist a few cold ones and then everything fades to black,
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In an era when our gravest security threats are covert, when troops must be committed on the basis of scraps of intelligence, not flag-waving invasions from overseas, how can we compromise the integrity of our word?
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I must tell you I am ashamed when top leaders in this country and citizens of this country and even the president of the United States suggest to the people of this country that there should be an amendment to the constitution to take away rights from people rather than giving rights to people,
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The new president came to town saying he would change the tone and change the climate in Washington, ... I guess we didn't realize it was the actual climate that he wanted to change.