Latest Dick Gephardt Quotes from Interviews

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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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  America, Needs, Citizens

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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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  Self, Support, Democracy

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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.

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  Mean, Feelings, President

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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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  Running, Giving Up, Athlete

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• Politics takes patience, time, listening and endless meetings.

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  Listening, Endless, Meetings

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• In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty.

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  Issues, Loser, Winner

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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.

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  Issues, Democracy, Genius

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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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  Teacher, School, Law

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