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

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

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

" Politics swings like a pendulum. "

" I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" People like passion in politics. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" We are in favor of greater free markets. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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