Dick Gephardt Quotes
This President is a miserable failure on foreign policy.
Richard A. Gephardt, U.S. Congressman (Democrat, MO), House Minority Leader, Reference to then President George W. Bush, Campaign speeches, September 2003
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The “bozos” beat him and won the Presidency. And then conducted a very successful foreign policy for 8 years.
In 1938 beginning his policy of appeasement of the axis powers, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, 1869-1940, agreed to negotiate with Benito Mussolini, 1883-1945. Four days before this letter, Cranborne, along with his Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, 1897-1977, resigned in protest.
Clinton’s only political experience prior to his run for the Presidency was as a very successful Governor of Arkansas. Foreign policy was his weak suit.
Bush adopted a foreign policy of unilateralism which was offensive to and resented by most of the foreign countries with whom we had good relations. Many people thought it would take years to repair the damage, but President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were able to turn the situation around in a few years. The George W. Bush administration, in contrast to his father’s administration, was considered an aberration in American foreign policy by most countries.
While this probably was a slip of the tongue, President Bush and governor Perry both had civil right and individual had rights as a lower priority than a individual responsibility, strong growth economy or the military. There were many who really believed that the two men really thought excessive personal reedom a problem that people and the government must be protected from, like freedom for a woman to choose an abortion. For Perry in particular many thought that if this was a slip of the tounge, it was likely a Freudian slip as it what he really wants.
Chavez frequently insulted officials and leaders of other countries. See linked quotes for examples.
Richard Andrew Gephardt is an American politician who served as a United States Representative from Missouri 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.
