I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught. Dick Gephardt Read Quote
I’ve thought a lot about the world and how George Bush sees the world and it ain’t even close. Dick Gephardt Read Quote
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. Dick Gephardt Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Dick Gephardt Read Quote
I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the voting rights act re-enacted. I have been a strong supporter of affirmative action. I believe in it strongly. Dick Gephardt Read Quote
I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday. Dick Gephardt Read Quote
You know, when you’re in public life, everything you do is out there. But I am proud to stand on my record. Dick Gephardt Read Quote
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 Read Quote
