Dick Gephardt Quotes on Government (13 Quotes)

As I've said many times, this is the worst Congress that's ever been in the building. They have not done their work and now they want to get everything done in one bill in the last five minutes and it's not a reasonable way to act they've been very inept in the way they've run this Congress,

It's one thing to talk the talk, it's another thing to walk the walk, ... We've got to get labor and environment in these treaties, and we've got to do it when the treaties are before the Congress. That's when it counts.

Obviously, what we seek is what has been sought in the Senate, and that is a specific commitment that this will be brought up by a certain time on the floor of the House in a way that there is time for a full debate, consideration of various alternatives and an ability on the part of the House to vote on this matter before we leave.

one of the most important votes we will take in this Congress.

We'll have an investigation in the Congress, ... We should. You should, after any war, review what happened, what the intelligence was and whether things were done right.

I don't think we've done enough here on our continuity-of-government plan, ... It isn't enough to just have continuity in the executive branch. We need it in the judicial branch and the legislative branch.

the president's budget is a good budget. The president's budget would get a majority of Democrats in the House and in the Senate.

the Republicans control the Congress. The Republicans have an obligation, their responsibility in that position of controlling the majority to bring out and produce a budget. They haven't done it. They are woefully late.

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.

I didn't notice the Senate wanting to put the House bill that we passed, twice, on their calendar, unchanged, and have no amendments on it,

lost control of Congress in 1994, and lost four more times since then. ... We can't afford another losing national campaign against George W. Bush and the Republicans.

He got it from the president, and now he got it from Congress.

I do, however, respect the responsibility he has taken for his action and I am hopeful he and his family can find the peace and privacy they will need to see them through what must be a very painful time in their lives, ... It is my most fervent hope for the nation that this investigation can be brought to its long overdue conclusion, and that in the days ahead, the president and the Congress can pour our energies into a meaningful agenda for the country.