Ed Gillespie Quotes

• When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.

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• When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

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• Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

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• Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

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• We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

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• We are in favor of greater free markets.

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• They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.

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• The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation’s history.

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• The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.

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• The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

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• Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

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• So I think that our foreign policy, the president’s strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

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• Politics swings like a pendulum.

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• People like passion in politics.

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• Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

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• One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.

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• On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

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• If you’re a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.

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• If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn’t run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We’re going to run on the president’s strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

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• I’m an American first, and I think that’s how most people are.

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Ed Gillespie (34)

Birth:	15th August, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Political Strategist

About

Edward W. Gillespie is an American Republican political strategist who served as the 61st Chairman of the Republican National Committee and Counselor to the President in the George W. Bush administration. Gillespie, along with Democrat Jack Quinn, founded Quinn Gillespie & Associates, a bipartisan lobbying firm. Gillespie is also the founder of Ed Gillespie Strategies, a strategic consulting firm that provides high-level advice to companies and CEOs, coalitions, and trade associations.

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