Ed Gillespie Quotations

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.

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

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.

But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didnt just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.

I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

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.

I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.

I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.

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

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.

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

Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.

I believe we're the party of small business.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.

George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.

I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.

I don't believe we're the party of big business.

I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.

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

was very gracious in listening to a recitation of memos that go back a long way. I think the record will report that Judge Roberts has been entirely accurate in his statements.

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

People like passion in politics.

And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.

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

Politics swings like a pendulum.

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.

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

So I'm confident that at the end of the day, the president will be re-elected.

One, I do believe that the country has reached a point where we have the right mix of private and individual and government involvement.

On the critical issues of job creation, homeland security and national security, and who shares our values, they have adopted positions that may help them win their party's nomination, but will be rejected by the broader electorate next November.

I don't know that it has to be a judge. I don't think we should abandon the principle that we could put somebody on the bench from off a lower court.

I don't anticipate problems. I anticipate a vigorous process.

He came out trying to change the dynamics, but he couldn't.

We're preparing for a very close contest. We expect something to be more like 2000 than 1984 or 1972, ... This Week.

What I said is demonstrably true. The record and votes that I cited on behalf of Senator Kerry are easy to cite and check. President Bush's record of honorable discharge from the National Guard is also just as easy to check. This kind of political discourse is reprehensible.

He didn't roll his eyes and he didn't sigh 17 times in 20 minutes as he did last week, ... But he couldn't change what was happening up there.

He definitely looks and feels and sounds like a presidential aspirant.

I was in Vermont yesterday, and the Vermonters I talked to said I should not have been surprised that something their former governor said was at odds with the facts,

Terry McAuliffe is flat wrong and slanderous when he says the president was AWOL,

Just in 2000, there was a four-point advantage to the Democrats. And what we've seen is the Democrat line coming down, the Republican line going up.

We are in favor of greater free markets.

Vice President Gore needed to change the dynamics of the debate.

Bill Clinton tapped the brakes on that for two terms by appealing to the middle of the electorate, but he seems to have been an aberration.

Every single Democrat running for president today is for raising taxes on working Americans. They're split on a lot of things, but when it comes to raising taxes, they're unanimous,

As the Democrat Party gets smaller, it becomes increasingly more liberal, elitist and angry, and as it becomes increasingly more liberal, elitist and angry, it gets smaller,

At the end of the day, the fact is that most voters appreciate the president's strong and principled leadership, and they share his views on critical issues involving our national security, creation of jobs and who shares their values,

There was a better than two-to-one ratio in time allocation in attacks against the president versus laudatory comments about Senator Kerry's agenda,

The senator is trying to escape 20 years of his record in the United States Senate.

Someone said, 'well, did you coach him?' And I just laughed and said, 'that's like asking somebody if you can coach Michael Jordan on his jump shot. You just can't. He's a natural talent.'

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Kerry shared the assessment of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, ... He voted for the use of force in Iraq, then later tried to say it was a vote to 'threaten' the use of force, and then ultimately declared himself an 'anti-war' candidate.

As I've said on your show repeatedly, the fact is the president will be up. He will be down, ... Inside Politics.

This is because they don't want a debate on the issues, and they don't want to run on Sen. Kerry's record. I guess I can't blame them for that. We as a party cannot sink to their level. We must stick to the truth in this race.

This is an election year that's going to be very close and it's going to be fought between the 45-yard lines, and the fundamentals of the race haven't changed. They're right where they've been from the beginning. We're preparing for a close contest in November,

They understood, too, that it would be wrong to sacrifice the impartiality of the judge and make a comment to anyone in the United States Senate that you'd rule one way or another if you're confirmed,

They had the resources ready, and they didn't hesitate to pull the trigger.

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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It's a big area. We've not been in it much in the past,

It's not the kind of thing we'll make money on -- I'm trying not to lose money on it, ... I want to publicize Reagan's record.

Democrats in tough districts and in rural parts of the country were distancing themselves from Bill Clinton by the beginning of 1994.

It's important for us as a party that we handle the issue right.

In failing to retract his comments ... Dean continues to help steer the Democrat Party even farther out of the mainstream of acceptable political discourse.

If you look at the party identification and how voters identify themselves, the parties are just about at parity,

His long record in the Senate is one of advocating policies that would weaken our national security.

This is a classic example of Sen. Kerry trying to escape his 20-year record.

The House had seemed out of reach for four decades for Republicans. To win back the House was a major shift in the political dynamics in this country.