Pete du Pont
Pete du Pont
Pierre Samuel "Pete" du Pont IVis an American lawyer and politician from Rockland, in New Castle County, Delaware, near Wilmington. He was the United States Representative for Delaware from 1971 to 1977 and subsequently served as the 68th Governor of Delaware from 1977 to 1985. He is a member of the Republican Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 January 1935
CountryUnited States of America
strong jobs giving
Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.
winning trying opponents
If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.
government terrorist warrants
If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?
leader levers saws
Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
thinking use agendas
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.
opportunity nowhere-to-go wonderful
I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up.
fields gulags killing
From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences.
baby people leader
Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.
opportunity opportunity-knocks oppurtunity
They wrong opportunity who say she knocks but once
new-york sea age
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.
war moving fighting
Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.
people trying way
That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.
thinking census taxes
We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.
country party night
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.