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.
Ed Gillespie

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.
Ed Gillespie

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

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

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

I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.
Ed Gillespie

I believe we're the party of small business.
Ed Gillespie

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

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

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


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.
Ed Gillespie

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.
Ed Gillespie

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

I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
Ed Gillespie

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

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.
Ed Gillespie

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

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.
Ed Gillespie

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

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