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In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty. But they have to be willing to grudgingly accept the result. That's the genius of our democracy.

Dick Gephardt

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Dick Gephardt
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 31
Former Majority Leader
Lawyer
Politician
St. Louis
Missouri
Issues
Plenty
Results
Issue
Every
Result
Accept
Grudgingly
Genius
Losers
Accepting
Winners
Willing
Loser
Democracy
Winner

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The people I'm honored to represent in Missouri and all over the country want leaders to address their kitchen table everyday problems.
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I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.
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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.
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We are all so privileged to be citizens of America, and we all need to be engaged.
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I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.
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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.
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I grew up in the '50s and '60s when Jack Kennedy was president. We would watch him on television. And our teachers always talked about the good things public servants could do. I thought maybe that's something I should do. So when I got out of law school, my wife, Jane, and I became precinct captains.
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Our democracy if self-cleansing. If you don't like it, be a candidate, or support a candidate.
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Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.
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You know, when you're in public life, everything you do is out there. But I am proud to stand on my record.
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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.
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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.
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Politics is a substitute for violence.
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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.
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Democracy is interactive... Its a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.
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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.
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I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.
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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.
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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.
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