94 Quotes by Richard Gephardt

Instead of providing new ideas or honest answers to the economic downturn we are facing, Bush and Cheney offered empty rhetoric and blamed others for the recession.

I hope now that the Administration will rethink this approach and submit a fast track bill that accounts for labor, environmental, narcotics enforcement and human rights issues.

I plead with members, turn down this budget, and let's do a budget that doesn't send this country back into deficits,

In order to address this problem we need a balanced program, ... The program we are announcing today, we feel, is that balanced program. We have worked hard to roll out a set of policies that will address our short and long-term energy needs.

inexorably tied to Persian Gulf oil and old energy.

I suggest to members that we're making a mistake with this budget, ... It's a $2 trillion-plus tax cut that mostly goes to the richest Americans.

I think now that it's passed, we need to let it go into being and then see the problems and then try to fix them,

I don't think most members have figured out how they are going to vote for it,

I don't think there is a way to prove that, but I think we all suspect that, ... I think it is clear that these are people that are both up to no good and people that knew what they are doing.