94 Quotes by Richard Gephardt

I have enormous friendship and respect with Tom Daschle. Always have had and always will have. And I have nothing but admiration and respect for what he is trying to do with this in the Senate. As he said yesterday, it doesn't matter where you start, what matters is where you wind up. We have different bodies and we have different ways of dealing with it,

I believe we have an obligation to protect the United States by preventing him from getting these weapons and either using them himself or passing them or their components on to terrorists who share his destructive intent,

I'm also going to bring up the economic issues, which we believe are very important,

I can tell you this: We're going to pick up seats in the House and we will hope that in the next hours, and maybe days, that we will get to the magic number that we need,

For the president to claim that spending -- as opposed to the tax cut -- is at the root of the problem is simply to pass the buck.

I get frustrated when everyone on all of this is trying to infuse political motives into these decision, ... I mean, lets get serious. We're not playing games here. This is life and death.

He is, and further than that, if he were subject to blackmail, it would have been before a lot of this stuff was publicly known,

We've got to look back on what happened and try to figure out how to do better,

It certainly wasn't an intentional mistake, ... No one understood that the machinery at the post office and the way it worked might tend to get this stuff in the air.