203 Quotes by Dick Gephardt

You don't lock into a ten-year family budget. You take it a year at a time - maybe even six months at a time. And then if the income really comes in the way you hope it does, then you can make some of those expenditures that you've been waiting to make. We think that same principle should apply to the national family we call America.

seems high to me, because once you get above the levels where the president was in his budget, you really are in the area where you're starting to raise premiums.

Let's say somebody lost an arm or died as a result of mistreatment in the system, as the result of a medical decision made by an HMO. You want the person to be able to go to court to be able to get damages for that mistreatment,

So this is what the lobbyists and other wealthy individuals got for their money. They get their overly generous share of the tax bill.

So instead of trying to hold them accountable for what they have done wrong, it seems that some in the Republican leadership want to exempt them from any accountability in the legal system for what they have done wrong.

Any delay would have given Saddam Hussein time to reconstitute his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and undermine international support for our efforts. It also would have been contrary to the president's commitment in November to respond militarily to future Iraqi provocations.

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.

are things that I've found when I met with the president.

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,