Pete du Pont Quotes

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• From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill…
• I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up.
• Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to…
• Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
• If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?
• 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 opponent is, for…
• Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very…
• One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, lets all…
• Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial…
• They wrong opportunity who say she knocks but once
• Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know…
• Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Interne is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with…
• There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are…
• Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on…
• We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.
• That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.
• Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.
• The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up…
• The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to…
• Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.

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