Dick Gephardt Quotes - Page 2

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• Politics is a substitute for violence.

  Dick Gephardt

  Violence, Substitutes

  Twitter post from Oct 19, 2016

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Records, Proud, Public Life

  Twitter post from Nov 13, 2016

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Teaching, College, Class

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• When you succeed (with legislation), that feeling is exhilaration. And it takes leadership from a president, which means you meet with members of Congress 24/7 and you talk and you listen.

  Dick Gephardt

  Mean, Feelings, President

  Source: patch.com

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• When I'm president, we'll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day

  Dick Gephardt

  Order, President, Overcoming

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• I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

  Dick Gephardt

  Years, Hatred, Honor

  "Sen. Richard Gephardt's Speech Text". abcnews.go.com. August 16.

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Heart, Caring, Men

  Sen. Richard (Dick) Gephardt's speech at the Democratic National Convention, abcnews.go.com. August 16, 2000.

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• If you want to run for president, you better be an athlete. It's 24/7. It never ends. You give up your personal life completely and you have something of a chance to be shot.

  Dick Gephardt

  Running, Giving Up, Athlete

  Source: patch.com

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Country, Everyday Problems, People

  "Sen. Richard Gephardt's Speech Text". abcnews.go.com. August 16.

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  World

  "Wide-open Democratic field", www.cnn.com. February 21, 2003.

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Strong, Thinking, People

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• We are all so privileged to be citizens of America, and we all need to be engaged.

  Dick Gephardt

  America, Needs, Citizens

  Source: patch.com

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• And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'

  Dick Gephardt

  Light, President, Cameras

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• We can see beyond the present shadows of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the strong work together to deter and stop aggression. This was precisely Franklin Roosevelt's and Winston Churchill's vision for peace for the post-war period.

  Dick Gephardt

  Strong, War, Order

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• I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction.

  Dick Gephardt

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  "Congressional reaction to Iraq resolution is mixed", www.cnn.com. September 20, 2002.

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Kings, School, Holiday

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

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• I've always had good energy; I've always had good health.

  Dick Gephardt

  Energy, Good Health, Good Energy

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Running, Oil, Special

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Cutting, Average, People

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