Ed Gillespie

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

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

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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 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. ”

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. ”

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