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
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.
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,
Any delay would have given Saddam Hussein time to reconstitute his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and undermine international support for our efforts. It also would have been contrary to the president's commitment in November to respond militarily to future Iraqi provocations.
He said ... Medicare was the worst federal program ever, ... Howard, you were agreeing with the very plan that Newt Gingrich wanted to pass, which was a $270 billion cut in Medicare.
I don't apologize for that, and I'm not sorry that Saddam Hussein is gone,
a greater emphasis on political positioning than serious policy solutions.
Frankly, in my view, they have been captivated by their special interests.
I admire him for reaching out and working as hard as he is to get it done. But he is not willing to be for a bad budget and he's not willing to sacrifice these important principles.
If the Republicans had been willing to come to the middle and compromise and reach a consensus on the budget then we could have gotten the budget balanced last year, we could have done it the year before.
I'm a parent of three children. If I thought that some politician was playing with their lives for political purposes, I'd be morally outraged.
the Republicans had tremendous amounts of special interest money. The pharmaceutical companies spent probably $50 million or $60 million supporting all Republican candidates and that blurred a lot of the issue on prescription drugs.
These numbers are bouncing around. This is a volatile race,
I think by even President Bush's own standards, the themes that he used in the campaign and after, he hasn't measured up,
My parents wanted me to be a Baptist minister. I was a youth minister in my church when I was still in college. And I was in a lot of theater in high school, and at Northwestern.