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 Read Quote
Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again. Pete du Pont Read Quote
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 conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party. Pete du Pont Read Quote
There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today. Pete du Pont Read Quote
That’s the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn’t work, you try another. Pete du Pont Read Quote
Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Internet is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we’re faced with an information age. Pete du Pont Read Quote
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 that middle class Americans want to go. Pete du Pont Read Quote
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 Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying. Pete du Pont Read Quote
One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let’s all be friends in Washington philosophy. Pete du Pont Read Quote
Newt has two transitions behind him. First he had to capture control of the House. He had to get the Republican budget through. He had to get the Contract With America through. He has done that. Pete du Pont Read Quote
