Quotes by Richard Gephardt

“If you want to live like a Republican, you have to vote for Democrats”

“If you want to live like a Republican, you have to vote for Democrats.”

“Were not playing games here.”

“I get frustrated when everyone on all of this is trying to infuse political motives into these decision, ... I mean, lets get serious. Were not playing games here. This is life and death.”

“I have enormous friendship and respect with Tom Daschle. Always have had and always will have. And I have nothing but admiration and respect for what he is trying to do with this in the Senate. As he said yesterday, it doesnt matter where you start, what matters is where you wind up. We have different bodies and we have different ways of dealing with it,”

“Our bill recognizes that we are in a period of economic uncertainty, so we give people immediate tax relief, which we think will help them get through this uncertain time,”

“My fear is that the Republican reaction to this is negative, ... Its clear to me that the Republican leadership simply is responding to special interests and not to the interests of ordinary Americans.”

“Obviously, if he has broken rules or done something thats wrong, he will have to stand the consequences, ... Meet the Press.”

“And politically he has to stand the consequences with his constituents in California, who he is going to talk to in the next few days. But to rush to judgment now and say we know this or that or the other, we dont know a lot of these facts. A lot of it has been rumor and innuendo.”

“He is, and further than that, if he were subject to blackmail, it would have been before a lot of this stuff was publicly known,”