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
gifted national leader and a model public servant.
Frankly, in my view, they have been captivated by their special interests.
free and fair trade ... policies that raise standards so that everyone does better.
We fully support the president's decision today to undertake military action with our allies against Iraq. Saddam Hussein's defiance of U.N. weapons inspectors is a clear violation of the international community's determination to ensure that Iraq no longer poses a threat to the region.
We have a big job of reconciling the people in Iraq. We need to pull together that international coalition that we should have gotten together a long time ago,
We're the leaders and we've got to lead. And you lead by example. And you lead by working with people that we haven't worked so well with together in the past,
We're talking about education, we're talking about school construction... You can't get smaller class size with just teachers, you need the buildings,
You cannot short-circuit and push all 535 people out of the room and make the decision between two or three people. We are not going to let them run over people's right to understand what's in the bill.
We walked to demonstrate our deep displeasure at the action of the majority party; they disregarded the clear will of the majority of the American people,
Tom Daschle and I worked together on Families First every step of the way, making sure that Democrats in both the House and Senate were involved in putting the agenda together.
We all may be sorry if this bill doesn't contain the money the IMF needs, ... This is an important moment. Nobody will like a world in free-fall.
Never has so much been done, in so little time, to help so few.
should have the support of the Congress and the public with sending our service men and women into harm's way. I am very concerned that we have not acted on a resolution of support already.
Since Republicans refuse to put school modernization in the tax bill, we demand that it be included in the Labor-HHS bill. The president is with us on this, and we're not going home until our children and teachers get the help that they need,