6 Quotes & Sayings By Dick Gephardt

Richard Gephardt is a Democrat former U.S. Representative from Missouri, who served from 1979 to 2007. He was the House Majority Leader from 1999 to 2001. He served as the Democratic nominee for President in 2004 and 2008, twice losing both times in the general election to Republican candidates—George W Read more

Bush in 2004 and John McCain in 2008. In 2004, Gephardt announced his retirement from Congress to work full-time on his presidential campaign.

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Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication. Dick Gephardt
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I've always had good energy I've always had good health. Dick Gephardt
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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
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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
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In 1993, as House Democratic Leader, I led the fight to pass the Clinton-Gore economic plan - a plan designed to slash the deficit, invest in education, cut taxes for working families, and ask the wealthy among us to pay their fair share... Not one Republican voted for that plan. They said it was a job killer. Dick Gephardt