A biography for Ed Gillespiehasn’t been written yet.
“People like passion in politics.”
“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.”
“I believe we're the party of small business.”
“One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.”
“I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.”
“Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.”
“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.”
“Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Our party may have swung too far right at various times.”
“We are in favor of greater free markets.”
“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.”