Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie
Edward Walter "Ed" Gillespieis an American Republican political strategist who served as the 61st Chairman of the Republican National Committee and Counselor to the President in the George W. Bush administration. Gillespie, along with Democrat Jack Quinn, founded Quinn Gillespie & Associates, a bipartisan lobbying firm. Gillespie is also the founder of Ed Gillespie Strategies, a strategic consulting firm that provides high-level advice to companies and CEOs, coalitions, and trade associations. In January 2014, Gillespie announced he was running for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 August 1961
CountryUnited States of America
I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.
I don't believe we're the party of big business.
Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
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 believe we're the party of small business.
Our party may have swung too far right at various times.
One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
We are in favor of greater free markets.
Democrats in tough districts and in rural parts of the country were distancing themselves from Bill Clinton by the beginning of 1994.
In failing to retract his comments ... Dean continues to help steer the Democrat Party even farther out of the mainstream of acceptable political discourse.
It's important for us as a party that we handle the issue right.
At the end of the day, the fact is that most voters appreciate the president's strong and principled leadership, and they share his views on critical issues involving our national security, creation of jobs and who shares their values,
Bill Clinton tapped the brakes on that for two terms by appealing to the middle of the electorate, but he seems to have been an aberration.
Every single Democrat running for president today is for raising taxes on working Americans. They're split on a lot of things, but when it comes to raising taxes, they're unanimous,