Quotes by Dick Gephardt

You know, when you’re in public life, everything you do is out there. But I am proud to stand on my record.

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can’t have both.

I’ve thought a lot about the world and how George Bush sees the world and it ain’t even close.

The people I’m honored to represent in Missouri and all over the country want leaders to address their kitchen table everyday problems.

Every proposal I’m making, every idea I’m advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need.

I think it’s time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.

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.

I think in some cases busing did improve the situation in some areas; in some cases it didn’t. We had busing in St. Louis, and it has been ended and we are using other methods of trying to better integrate the schools.

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

I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can’t pass a complicated government-run plan.