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Former Majority Leader Inspirational Quotes (44)

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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.
Dick Gephardt
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If I were in the President's place, I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey, standing over me, saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'
Dick Armey
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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.
Dick Gephardt
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I've thought a lot about the world and how George Bush sees the world and it ain't even close.
Dick Gephardt
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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
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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
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The United States has an absolute duty to attack terrorism where it lives and breeds, in order to prevent future attacks on American citizens around the world. The American people stand united in the face of terrorism. The men and women who undertook this mission deserve our praise and prayers.
Dick Armey
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Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.
Dick Gephardt
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When you succeed (with legislation), that feeling is exhilaration. And it takes leadership from a president, which means you meet with members of Congress 24/7 and you talk and you listen.
Dick Gephardt
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You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.
Dick Armey
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Conservatives have a deeper intellect and tend to have occupations of the brain in fields like engineering, science, and economics. Liberals, on the other hand, tend to flock to occupations of the heart.
Dick Armey
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I would be looking up from a pool of blood and hearing my wife ask 'How do I reload this thing'.
Dick Armey
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We are all so privileged to be citizens of America, and we all need to be engaged.
Dick Gephardt
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The reason families need two incomes today is not to support themselves but to support the government.
Dick Armey
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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.
Dick Gephardt
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I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president.
Dick Armey
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Democracy is interactive... Its a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.
Dick Gephardt
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The American Dream is not to own your own home, but to get your kids out of it.
Dick Armey
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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
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Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.
Dick Armey
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I would hate to have gone through life as a beautiful woman because they all too often get discounted.
Dick Armey
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In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty.
Dick Gephardt
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Our democracy if self-cleansing. If you don't like it, be a candidate, or support a candidate.
Dick Gephardt
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I think a lot of people think I was born in a blue suit, on the David Brinkley show. And that isn't me. I am much more that kid who grew up in South St. Louis, in a very modest household, with a simple background with parents who didn't get through high school.
Dick Gephardt
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