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.

Quote by Pete Du Pont

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We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't...

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't...

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Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and...

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I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors...

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If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You...

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Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power...

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Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club...

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Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a...

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Newt changed the frame of reference of all of our candidates. That's why we won...

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Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make...

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The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus...

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Newt has two transitions behind him. First he had to capture control of the House....

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That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work,...

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Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to...

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Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Interne is making...

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Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election...

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If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government...

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Moderates shouldn't be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he's laid it forward....

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One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business...

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Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and...

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just...

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just...