Our democracy if self-cleansing. If you don't like it, be a candidate, or support a candidate. Dick Gephardt More Quotes by Dick Gephardt More Quotes From Dick Gephardt I've always had good energy; I've always had good health. Dick Gephardt good-energy good-health energy I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok. Dick Gephardt oil special running 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. Dick Gephardt cutting average people Like father, like son, four years and this president is done. Dick Gephardt like done father son 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. Dick Gephardt family hope waiting time In 1993, as House Democratic Leader, I led the fight to pass the Clinton-Gore economic plan - a plan designed to slash the deficit, invest in education, cut taxes for working families, and ask the wealthy among us to pay their fair share... Not one Republican voted for that plan. They said it was a job killer. Dick Gephardt fight job leader education 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. Dick Gephardt realize control woman destiny If the economy is still going forward, even at 40 miles an hour, 50 miles an hour, I think most people will stick with President Obama. I think people look at politics like they hire a plumber. I hire you to fix the bad pipe. If you fix it, I'll rehire you. If you don't fix it, I'm not going to rehire you. Dick Gephardt look you politics people
