Ed Gillespie Quotes

There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.

In 1968, 'Liberty Magazine' had an article about George Wallace in which he stated he would suggest me as a possible vice-presidential candidate, along with other choices such as 'Happy' Chandler and General Curtis LeMay. However, I am not interested in any political office in the United States or anywhere, now or back in 1968.

I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters.

Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.

There are people on staff who have made that point, that the upside to a second Bush term is that it makes 'American Dad' work better. To me, the price is too high. I would gladly give up the comedy to have a President Kerry. But you work with what you have.

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.

Every day I turn on my television set and I see Newt Gingrich on television, I rejoice.

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician.

There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.

One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.'

If you are running for the presidency of the United States, you better have a strong opinion.

For the Presidency, you run on a record and not on your legs.

Mo [Congressman Morris K. Udall] is too funny to be President.

If George W. Bush is a reformer, I'm an astronaut!

Definition of Moron: What the Republicans would call George W. Bush if he were the Democratic President

Under George W. Bush, the politization of intelligence tested new depths …. The pro-war wind that the Bush Administration policy makers had generated … was strong, unrelenting and inescapable.

As a presidential candidate, Trump seems heaven-sent just to make fools out of Republicans.

I was a history and government major at Ohio State University, and I've spent a lot of time just fiddling around with who the next president's going to be, over the years, or who would I like to see in that job, or whatever. And I've come to believe, without any reservation, in this era, the best-prepared person for this job by far is Donald Trump.

I am joining politics for sure.

I would do whatever I could to make Jeremy Corbyn more electable, but you've got to give me something to work with, mate.

Howard Dean is no longer the brilliant mastermind of the Fifty State Strategy that enabled the Democrats to storm the White House and Congress. He's the idiot wearing an ugly sweatshirt.

Campaigning and governing are two very different activities, and there is no reason to assume that how Trump conducted the former will dictate how he approaches the latter.

I would love John McCain as president.