Pete du Pont Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.”

“Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.”

“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.”

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

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

“Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and the California legislature around the country.”

“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.”

“Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.”

“Newt changed the frame of reference of all of our candidates. That's why we won so big in 1994.”