Ed Gillespie Quotes
I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
Gillespie, Ed. Winning Right: Campaign Politics and Conservative Policies. Free Press, 2006, p. 3.
The Vice President had quoted Ronald Reagan’s famous inaugural address statement {630713}. Once Quayle became the number two man in the government, he was asked if he were part of the problem which elicited this famous response.
This appears to be the first use of the term, "Conservative party."
When he was booed by the crowd at an NAACP convention for his civil rights positions:
Edward Walter Gillespie is an American politician, strategist, and lobbyist who served as the 61st Chair of the Republican National Committee from 2003 to 2005 and was Counselor to the President from 2007 to 2009 during the Presidency of George W. Bush. In 2012 Gillespie was a senior member of the Mitt Romney presidential campaign.
