Ed Gillespie famous quotes

04-14-2025

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

#College #Texas #Republican
I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Party #Thinking #Today
I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Party #Men #Proud
I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Thinking #People #Firsts
If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.
-- Ed Gillespie

#People #Littles #States
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Home #African American #Today
Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Party #Thinking #Republican
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.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Moving #Self #September 11
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.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Party #Past #Years
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.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Office #President #Today
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.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Morning #Volunteer #Campaigns
Politics swings like a pendulum.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Swings #Pendulums
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.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Leadership #Running #Strong
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.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Leadership #Strong #War
Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Running #Wife #Congress
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.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Past #Years #Political
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.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Mean #People #And Love
George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.
-- Ed Gillespie

#President
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.
-- Ed Gillespie

#America #Interesting #President
Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Running #Party #Years
I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Believe #Passion #People
People like passion in politics.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Passion #People
The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Party #Election #Democratic
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.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Thinking #Impact #Texas
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.
-- Ed Gillespie

#Country #Thinking #House

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