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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Al Gore is for the McCain-Feingold bill. In fact, he said it will be the first bill that he sends to the new Congress if he's president. George Bush is really not very enthusiastic about it at all. I'm not sure it would be his tenth bill sent to Congress.
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This is happening without a budget, without hearings, without input from anybody,
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The Republicans say the government ought to be run like a business, ... How many businesses give dividends without knowing their profits?
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It's in a state of flux, ... It's in a state of negotiation.
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I think we've got to stop parsing words and trying to be anything other than accurate about what this is, ... This is highly sophisticated material. It is small in size and it aerosolizes.
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It's Orwellian. The pharmaceutical lobby writes the bill, passes it, and then they run ads thanking them for passing it.
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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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They are rushing, ... I suppose because they are worried about the facts getting out, they are worried about this budget being examined.
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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 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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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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In order to address this problem we need a balanced program, ... The program we are announcing today, we feel, is that balanced program. We have worked hard to roll out a set of policies that will address our short and long-term energy needs.
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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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This is not something where I go off and make decisions. I have to talk to my colleagues, talk with the caucus. We have an ethics process in this House that has to be respected. We're going to do these things in the right way,