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,
Unlike the Contract with America, which was created by Washington pollsters and insiders, Families First was developed from the grassroots up. Congressional Democrats from across the country spent months meeting with people back home, asking them what issues were important to them, and what Congress could do to make their lives a little easier.
We have an obligation to prevent terrorists' attacks on this building, on these buildings, on the members, and the tourists,
To beat George Bush , we need a leader who can go toe-to-toe with George Bush in these difficult, dangerous times on national security, toe-to-toe,
Today, we got the teachers, and now we must come back with a new Congress and get the (improved buildings). We are thrilled that our children are going to have a better education.
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,
To me, there is no room for the cynical politics of manufactured anger and false conviction.
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,
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.
I don't think we've done enough to train ourselves and the staff and media people that are in this building for how we're going to get out of this building in the case of an attack, ... I think we need to repeatedly train for how to get out.
I don't think we've done enough here on our continuity-of-government plan, ... It isn't enough to just have continuity in the executive branch. We need it in the judicial branch and the legislative branch.
I don't think it really changes our strategy. It's a Gephardt-Dean race in Iowa, and it will always continue to be a Gephardt-Dean race,
If what the president said tonight sounded too good to be true, it probably is,
If this were a national foreign policy crisis, we would be on the floor this week, ... We should be on the floor this week, talking about ideas that would begin to solve this problem.