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They wrong opportunity who say she knocks but once
Pete Du Pont / Lawyer
Opportunity
Opportunity Knocks
Oppurtunity
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Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.
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War
Fighting
Moving
Wars
Slowly
Seem
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I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up.
Pete Du Pont / Lawyer
Motivational
Opportunity
Nowhere To Go
Optimism
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Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
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Franklin
Great Leader
Leader
Saws
Use
Affect
Change Power Great
Franklin Roosevelt
Saw
Roosevelt
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Newt changed the frame of reference of all of our candidates. That's why we won so big in 1994.
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Candidates
Frame
Newt
Reference
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That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.
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Entrepreneurial
People
Trying
Way
Work People Way
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We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.
Pete Du Pont / Lawyer
Census
Ought
Taxes
Thinking
Weakened
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There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today.
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Corporations
Entrepreneurial
Heads
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If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?
Pete Du Pont / Lawyer
Government
Terrorist
Warrants
Attacks
Warrant
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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.
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Democratic
Election
Opponents
Percent
Trying
Winning
Opponent
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Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.
Pete Du Pont / Lawyer
Authority
Franklin
President
President Bush
Acted
Bush
Constitutional
Exceeded
Warrant
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Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Interne is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.
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Running
Age
Media
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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.
Pete Du Pont / Lawyer
Baby
Leader
People
Political Leaders
American People
Newt
Right Answer
Trial
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Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Internet is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.
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Enormous
Establishment
Information Age
Radio
Talk Radio
Suddenly
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One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, lets all be friends in Washington philosophy.
Pete Du Pont / Lawyer
Philosophy
Tragedy
Usual
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One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy.
Pete Du Pont / Lawyer
Administration
Usual
Bush
Bush Administration
Washington
Democrats
Tragedies
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Moderates shouldn't be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he's laid it forward. He's fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go.
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Middle Class
Moderates
Nervous
Vision
Fundamentally
Laid
Newt
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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.
Pete Du Pont / Lawyer
California
Candidates
Election
Legislature
Ohio
Original Idea
State Legislature
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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.
Pete Du Pont / Lawyer
New York
Age
Information Age
New York Times
News
Sea
Sea Change
Pull
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Newt has two transitions behind him. First he had to capture control of the House. He had to get the Republican budget through. He had to get the Contract With America through. He has done that.
Pete Du Pont / Lawyer
Capture
Budget
Contract
Newt
Transitions
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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.
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Bowling
Country
Night
Party
Thursday
Alley
Bowling Alley
Club
Country Club
Image
Opposed
Reagan
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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.
Pete Du Pont / Lawyer
Jobs
Candidates
Capture
Congress
Democratic
Distinction
Giving
Profile
Strong
Edge
Gingrich
Newt
Opponent
Required
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Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there.
Pete Du Pont / Lawyer
Down The Road
Landmarks
Looks
Sides
Want
American Public
Assumes
Correctly
Distinguish
Newt
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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.
Pete Du Pont / Lawyer
Fields
Gulags
Nazi Concentration Camps
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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.
Pete Du Pont / Lawyer
Ability
Crisis
Franklin
Thinking
Times Of Crisis
Way
Agenda
Changes
Nation
Time Moment Way
Franklin Roosevelt
Govern
Moment
Roosevelt
Shape
Thinks
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The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate.
Pete Du Pont / Lawyer
Bowling
Country
Party
Republican Party
Struggle
Versus
Alley
Bowling Alley
Brings
Colin
Colin Powell
Country Club
Insider
Moderate
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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.
Pete Du Pont / Lawyer
Explosions
Grandfather
Gunpowder
Family Business Great
Ancestors
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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.
Pete Du Pont / Lawyer
Leadership
Civil Rights
Members
Middle Class
Minorities
Party
Republican Party
Rights
Civil
Gulf
Persuaded
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