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" 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. "

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" 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

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Republican

Process

" 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. "

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

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

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

" We are in favor of greater free markets. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Politics swings like a pendulum. "

Ed Gillespie

Politics

Swings

" I believe we're the party of small business. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

Ed Gillespie

Years

President

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

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

" 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. "

Ed Gillespie

Places

" But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't 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 don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

Ed Gillespie

Think

Party