Diplomacy matters. Burden-sharing matters. Follow-through matters. And yes, sustaining the peace is harder, more complex and often costlier … - Dick Gephardt

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When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.

Dick Gephardt

Diplomacy matters. Burden-sharing matters. Follow-through matters. And yes, sustaining the peace is harder, more complex and often costlier than winning the war itself. No matter the surge of momentary machismo -- as gratifying as it may be for some -- it's short-sighted and wrong to simply go it alone.

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Democracy is interactive. . . Its a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

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America is a great country. We are so wealthy. But our one remaining challenge is to fulfill the potential of all our people. And the only way we can do that is to try to bring everybody together to a higher place.

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I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.

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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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Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

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