"I filed a brief as a friend of……" — Dick Gephardt
"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."
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Dick Gephardt
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42 Quotes by Dick Gephardt
Dick Gephardt has 42 quotes on this site.
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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.
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I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried…
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Democracy is interactive... Its a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.
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I think when everything is finally considered, I'll have a lot of support -- strong support -- not only from…
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The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to…
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And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'
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We can see beyond the present shadows of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the…
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What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a…
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I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction.
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Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.
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One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much…
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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…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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