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• 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

  Strong, Believe, Fighting

  "Gephardt Admits Mistake on Race Issues in '70s", www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2004.

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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

  Teaching, College, Class

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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

  School, Kids, Simple

  "Who Is Richard Gephardt?", abcnews.go.com.

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Teacher, School, Law

  Source: patch.com

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Records, Proud, Public Life

  Twitter post from Nov 13, 2016

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• When I'm president, we'll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day

  Dick Gephardt

  Order, President, Overcoming

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• I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

  Dick Gephardt

  Years, Hatred, Honor

  "Sen. Richard Gephardt's Speech Text". abcnews.go.com. August 16.

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

  Dick Gephardt

  Issues, Loser, Winner

  Source: patch.com

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Country, Everyday Problems, People

  "Sen. Richard Gephardt's Speech Text". abcnews.go.com. August 16.

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• I think when everything is finally considered, I'll have a lot of support -- strong support -- not only from labor unions but from working people.

  Dick Gephardt

  Strong, Thinking, People

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• And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'

  Dick Gephardt

  Light, President, Cameras

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

  Dick Gephardt

  Listening, Endless, Meetings

  Source: patch.com

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• 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

  Kings, School, Holiday

  "Gephardt Admits Mistake on Race Issues in '70s", www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2004.

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• I've always had good energy; I've always had good health.

  Dick Gephardt

  Energy, Good Health, Good Energy

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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.

  Dick Gephardt

  Running, Oil, Special

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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

  Cutting, Average, People

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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

  Strong, War, Order

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• I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction.

  Dick Gephardt

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  "Congressional reaction to Iraq resolution is mixed", www.cnn.com. September 20, 2002.

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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

  World

  "Wide-open Democratic field", www.cnn.com. February 21, 2003.

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