Dick Gephardt Quotes

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• Democracy is interactive... Its a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

  Dick Gephardt

  Jobs, Communication, Listening

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Country, America, People

  FaceBook post by Dick Gephardt from Oct 14, 2016

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• I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.

  Dick Gephardt

  Issues, People, Kitchen

  Twitter post from Oct 05, 2016

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Issues, Democracy, Genius

  Source: patch.com

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• Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

  Dick Gephardt

  Moral, Share, Fortune

  Twitter post from Nov 01, 2016

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• Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

  Dick Gephardt

  Voting, Democracy, Internet

  Twitter post from Nov 07, 2016

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Running, Fighting, Government

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• Our democracy if self-cleansing. If you don't like it, be a candidate, or support a candidate.

  Dick Gephardt

  Self, Support, Democracy

  Source: patch.com

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Country, Fall, Character

  "Top Democrats rip Clinton's defense strategy". www.cnn.com. September 14, 1998.

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• One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it.

  Dick Gephardt

  Mistake, America, People

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  School, Thinking, Trying

  "Gephardt Admits Mistake on Race Issues in '70s", www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2004.

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Teacher, School, Law

  Source: patch.com

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Important Values, Two, Healthy

  FaceBook post by Dick Gephardt from Oct 12, 2016

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Mother, Dad, School

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Thinking, White, House

  Twitter post from Oct 10, 2016

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• In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty.

  Dick Gephardt

  Issues, Loser, Winner

  Source: patch.com

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Ideas, Giving, Needs

  "Gephardt comes out fighting / Hard-hitting Democrat announces second bid for White House" by Adam Nagourney, www.sfgate.com. February 20, 2003.

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• Diplomacy matters. Burden-sharing matters. Follow-through matters. And yes, sustaining the peace is harder, more complex and often costlier than winning the war itself. No matter the surge of momentary machismo -- as gratifying as it may be for some -- it's short-sighted and wrong to simply go it alone.

  Dick Gephardt

  War, Winning, May

  "Daily MoJo", www.motherjones.com. July 23, 2003.

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Light, Iowa, Tuesday

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• Politics takes patience, time, listening and endless meetings.

  Dick Gephardt

  Listening, Endless, Meetings

  Source: patch.com

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• The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.

  Dick Gephardt

  Political, President, Helping

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• Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.

  Dick Gephardt

  Cells, Division, Life Is

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• I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the voting rights act re-enacted. I have been a strong supporter of affirmative action. I believe in it strongly.

  Dick Gephardt

  Strong, Believe, Fighting

  "Gephardt Admits Mistake on Race Issues in '70s", www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2004.

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Thinking, Good Listener, Can Do

  "Chameleon" by Richard Blow, www.motherjones.com. September/October 1994.

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• I think a lot of people think I was born in a blue suit, on the David Brinkley show. And that isn't me. I am much more that kid who grew up in South St. Louis, in a very modest household, with a simple background with parents who didn't get through high school.

  Dick Gephardt

  School, Kids, Simple

  "Who Is Richard Gephardt?", abcnews.go.com.

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