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Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.
— Dick Gephardt
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Dick Gephardt
politician, lawyer
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Richard Andrew Gephardt is an American attorney, lobbyist, and politician who represented Missouri's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he was House majority leader from 1989 to 1995 and minority leader from 1995 to 2003. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1988 and 2004. Gephardt was mentioned as a possible vice presidential nominee in 1988, 1992, 2000, 2004, and 2008.
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Politics is a substitute for violence.
— Dick Gephardt
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This president is a miserable failure on foreign policy and on the economy and he's got to be replaced.
— Dick Gephardt
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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