Dick Gephardt Quotes (115 Quotes)

Senator Lieberman's selection is a tribute to Al Gore's wisdom and vision and a welcome contrast to the highly partisan, right-wing politics of the Republican ticket, ... Mr. Lieberman has distinguished himself as an independent thinker who's well-respected on both sides of the aisle.

We've got to give people confidence to go back out and go to work, buy things, go back to the stores -- get ready for Thanksgiving, get ready for Christmas, ... Get out and be active, participate in our society.

a greater emphasis on political positioning than serious policy solutions.

This President is a miserable failure.

NATO had no choice but to deter this aggression and prevent the slaughter of innocent civilians.

This congress has spent most of the year debating tax cuts for the wealthiest that left no money for debt reduction, basic appropriations, or anything else,

I don't think we've done enough to train ourselves and the staff and media people that are in this building for how we're going to get out of this building in the case of an attack, ... I think we need to repeatedly train for how to get out.

We have an obligation to prevent terrorists' attacks on this building, on these buildings, on the members, and the tourists,

Never has so much been done, in so little time, to help so few.

Since Republicans refuse to put school modernization in the tax bill, we demand that it be included in the Labor-HHS bill. The president is with us on this, and we're not going home until our children and teachers get the help that they need,

I think the majority is in a rush because they think that people will find out the substance and the details. It needs to stand in the light of day it needs to stand, withstand scrutiny and analysis.

In the context of trying to ask for shared sacrifice and get the budget into balance, the Republicans are saying in the midst of making all these decisions let us give a rip-roaring tax cut to people at the very top, ... It takes your breath away.

We in the Democratic Party feel strongly that the people in the middle, the people stuck on the bottom, are the people we need to be giving the majority of this tax cut.

The real tragedy here is that over the last two years because of the intransigence of the Republicans we didn't really have a budget, we didn't do anything with Medicare, so those numbers are not as good as they could have been.

If this is his Gingrich's final decision, we have to cooperate and will cooperate because we want the investigation to go on,