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Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.
- Pete du Pont
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#American
#Answer
#People
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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
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#Taxes
#Think
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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
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#Deal
#Make
#Philosophy
If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.
- Pete du Pont
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#Opponent
#Say
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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
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#Nervous
#Us
#Vision
#Way
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
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#Information
#Internet
#Media
#Radio
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
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#House
#Republican
#Two
There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today.
- Pete du Pont
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#Heads
#Little
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#Were
Newt changed the frame of reference of all of our candidates. That's why we won so big in 1994.
- Pete du Pont
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The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate.
- Pete du Pont
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#Country
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Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.
- Pete du Pont
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#Language
#Republican
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
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#Night
#People
#Understanding
Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
- Pete du Pont
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#Great
#He
#How
#Power
The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.
- Pete du Pont
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#Change
#Information
#Internet
#News
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
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#Black
#Conservative
#Leadership
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