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
In the context of trying to ask for shared sacrifice and get the budget into balance, the Republicans are saying in the midst of making all these decisions let us give a rip-roaring tax cut to people at the very top, ... It takes your breath away.
If the president can get an agreement with the Republicans that is fair and reasonable and honest and it does not violate, as I'm sure it would not, his principles and our principles and beliefs, he ought to do that,
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,
I'm very proud of what we've achieved ... but there is, however, a large unfinished agenda.
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.
in grave danger of weakening the world economy.
I refuse to accept that while we stand shoulder-to-shoulder on the war, we should stand toe-to-toe on the economy,
It's an outrage to the senior citizens and the people of the United States, ... We will not rest until we get that benefit in law.
I didn't notice the Senate wanting to put the House bill that we passed, twice, on their calendar, unchanged, and have no amendments on it,
Never has so much been done, in so little time, to help so few.
You need to tell what happened in the House--the drug companies wrote the bill, and they wouldn't even let us bring up our alternative. It's a total capitulation to special interests! Keep going.
If you want to run for president, you better be an athlete. It's 24/7. It never ends. You give up your personal life completely and you have something of a chance to be shot.
will cause the parties, and the court, to go back and see if they can come up with an appropriate, sensible agreement.
We in the Democratic Party feel strongly that the people in the middle, the people stuck on the bottom, are the people we need to be giving the majority of this tax cut.