Michael Steele Quotes

• We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-suburban hip-hop settings. We need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.

  Michael Steele

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• You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we’ve turned, I think, a very dark page in our history. And I don’t want us to go there. I encourage Americans and I’m – right now, to go to these town hall meetings, to – to talk to your Congressmen, the people that you elected.

  Michael Steele

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• There’s room in the Republican Party for anyone who wants to be a part of the values that we espouse when it comes to the role of government, free enterprise, free markets.

  Michael Steele

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• The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are.

  Michael Steele

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• The bottom line is, I hear my donors, I hear our base out there, I hear the leadership. And we’re taking steps to make sure that we’re even more – how shall we say it – fiscally conservative in our spending and certainly making sure the dollars are there when it’s time to run our campaigns.

  Michael Steele

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• My view on politics is much more grassroots oriented; it’s not old boy network oriented, so I tend to, you know, come at it a little bit stronger, a little bit more street-wise, if you will. That’s rubbed some feathers the wrong way.

  Michael Steele

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• My style is a little bit different than most conventional Republican Party chairmen. My style is more grass roots-oriented. I’m much more of a street guy. I love hanging out in boardrooms, but I prefer to be in neighborhoods and communities.

  Michael Steele

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• Let’s focus on how we can take someone who is being poorly educated in an American public school and how they are poorly trained for a job, and put in place those opportunities for them to get that education, give their parents choice in education, make it real for them.

  Michael Steele

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• Just because a black man is running the RNC doesn’t mean black folks are going to, ‘Oh, OK, I will be a Republican.’ Just as with the election of President Obama. All the problems and concerns that are very important to African Americans don’t get solved overnight.

  Michael Steele

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• I was born in D.C. on 8th Street. I know what’s up. I know what time it is. I used to hang out in Brooklyn and in the Bronx as a teenager. I know what the real world is like.

  Michael Steele

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• You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It’s not a pejorative.

  Michael Steele

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• We don’t need to allow any more Nancy Pelosies to wind up in Congress.

  Michael Steele

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• We are a grassroots party. We always have been. That’s been the strength of the GOP.

  Michael Steele

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• The reality of it is I think the GOP – Republicans and certainly conservatives – will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.

  Michael Steele

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• Tax policy is not about compassion.

  Michael Steele

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• Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh’s whole thing is entertainment. Yes, it is incendiary. Yes, it is ugly.

  Michael Steele

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  Tags in Rush, Ugly

• Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that’s politics.

  Michael Steele

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  Tags in Playground, Everybody

• I’m a pro-life Roman Catholic conservative, always have been.

  Michael Steele

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• I respect Rush Limbaugh; he is a national conservative leader, and in no way do I want to diminish his voice.

  Michael Steele

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• George Bush created lots of jobs.

  Michael Steele

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  Tags in President, Bush

Michael Steele (29)

Birth:	19th October, 1958
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

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