Pete du Pont

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic…

— Pete du Pont

The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings…

— Pete du Pont

If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without…

— Pete du Pont

There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today.

— Pete du Pont

Newt changed the frame of reference of all of our candidates. That's why we won so big in 1994.

— Pete du Pont

From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal…

— Pete du Pont

Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks,…

— Pete du Pont

Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.

— Pete du Pont

Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Interne is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly…

— Pete du Pont

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We…

— Pete du Pont

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

— Pete du Pont

Moderates shouldn't be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he's laid it forward. He's fundamentally leading us in the way…

— Pete du Pont

Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are…

— Pete du Pont

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the…

— Pete du Pont

That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

— Pete du Pont

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black…

— Pete du Pont

Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and…

— Pete du Pont

Newt has two transitions behind him. First he had to capture control of the House. He had to get the Republican budget…

— Pete du Pont

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the…

— Pete du Pont

Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either…

— Pete du Pont

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

— Pete du Pont

Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought…

— Pete du Pont

Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That…

— Pete du Pont

I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in…

— Pete du Pont

Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who…

— Pete du Pont