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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A lot of employees have lost their jobs and, as I understand it, their pensions are probably in question now. This needs to be looked at.
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Everybody needs to decide this on their own, what their conscience dictates, what their hearts and minds tell them to do,
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This administration needs to stop behaving like the United States of Saudi Arabia and it needs to start mobilizing international pressure to get Saudi Arabia to stop funding, training and breeding global terror in the first place,
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The right way includes an immediate tax for those Americans most affected by the economic slowdown and a budget that leaves enough money to pay off the debt, invest in the needs and priorities of the American people, and keep interest rates low and our economy strong,
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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,