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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.

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George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.
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I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.
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Our party may have swung too far right at various times.
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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.
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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
I don't believe we're the party of big business.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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People like passion in politics.
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I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.
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I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.
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
Politics swings like a pendulum.
Ed Gillespie
We are in favor of greater free markets.
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 do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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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.
Ed Gillespie
If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.
Ed Gillespie
So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
Ed Gillespie
We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
Ed Gillespie
Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.
Ed Gillespie
When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
Ed Gillespie
I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.
Ed Gillespie
Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.
Ed Gillespie
Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
Ed Gillespie
They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
Ed Gillespie
One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
Ed Gillespie
Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.
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 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
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
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
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If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
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One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
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The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.
John Sherman Cooper
Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.
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Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.
Cofer Black
Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.
Robert. L. Ehrlich
Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.
Frederick Reines
While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.
Rahm Emanuel
I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
Carly Fiorina
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
Vance Packard
The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.
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To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
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