Ed Gillespie
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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
The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.
Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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.
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.
I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.
I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.
It's not the kind of thing we'll make money on -- I'm trying not to lose money on it, ... I want to publicize Reagan's record.
They had the resources ready, and they didn't hesitate to pull the trigger.
I was in Vermont yesterday, and the Vermonters I talked to said I should not have been surprised that something their former governor said was at odds with the facts,
The House had seemed out of reach for four decades for Republicans. To win back the House was a major shift in the political dynamics in this country.
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,
The senator is trying to escape 20 years of his record in the United States Senate.
As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Kerry shared the assessment of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, ... He voted for the use of force in Iraq, then later tried to say it was a vote to 'threaten' the use of force, and then ultimately declared himself an 'anti-war' candidate.