Dick Gephardt Quotations | Page 2

We can see beyond the present shadows of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the strong work together to deter and stop aggression. This was precisely Franklin Roosevelt's and Winston Churchill's vision for peace for the post-war period.

Our democracy if self-cleansing. If you don't like it, be a candidate, or support a candidate.

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

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

I don't think you can be a good listener unless you're a good listener. I think it's something that you really have to do, and if you really do it, then you can do it. If you don't do it, then you can't do it.

If you want to run for president, you better be an athlete. It's 24/7. It never ends. You give up your personal life completely and you have something of a chance to be shot.

Politics is a substitute for violence.

Like father, like son, four years and this president is done.

The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize that the question of choice is to be answered, not by the state, but by the individual.

The deficit only became a big problem in the Reagan-Bush years. For 12 years, Republican presidents talked about balancing the budget, but failed to propose one.