Dick Gephardt Quotes
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I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.
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Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.
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The people I'm honored to represent in Missouri and all over the country want leaders to address their kitchen table everyday problems.
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I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.
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One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with common sense and decency, .. The considered judgment of the American people is not going to rise or fall on the fine distinctions of a legal argument but on straight talk and the truth. It is time for the president and the Congress to follow that common sense for the good of the country.
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I've always had good energy; I've always had good health.
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I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction.
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I think when everything is finally considered, I'll have a lot of support -- strong support -- not only from labor unions but from working people.
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Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats.
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Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.
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What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.
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Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.
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I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can't pass a complicated government-run plan.
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Politics is a substitute for violence.
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I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.
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And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'
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In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.
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I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.
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I've thought a lot about the world and how George Bush sees the world and it ain't even close.
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I don't think you can be a good listener unless you're a good listener. I think it's something that you really have to do, and if you really do it, then you can do it. If you don't do it, then you can't do it.
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I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.
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Every proposal I'm making, every idea I'm advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need.
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Our democracy if self-cleansing. If you don't like it, be a candidate, or support a candidate.
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I think in some cases busing did improve the situation in some areas; in some cases it didn't. We had busing in St. Louis, and it has been ended and we are using other methods of trying to better integrate the schools.
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America is a great country. We are so wealthy. But our one remaining challenge is to fulfill the potential of all our people. And the only way we can do that is to try to bring everybody together to a higher place.
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I grew up in the '50s and '60s when Jack Kennedy was president. We would watch him on television. And our teachers always talked about the good things public servants could do. I thought maybe that's something I should do. So when I got out of law school, my wife, Jane, and I became precinct captains.
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In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty. But they have to be willing to grudgingly accept the result. That's the genius of our democracy.
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Democracy is interactive... Its a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.
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You know, when you're in public life, everything you do is out there. But I am proud to stand on my record.
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We are all so privileged to be citizens of America, and we all need to be engaged.
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