Ed Gillespie Quotes

Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.

It [is] natural that in the vibration of the political pendulum, it should go from one extreme to another.

Politics is a pendulum.

A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.

There are too many political moderates in America.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

I say Republicans aren't right all the time. Democrats aren't wrong all the time - now, maybe most of the time, but not all the time.

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

The Republican and Democratic parties have accomplished an amazing feat with the red state/blue state paradigm. They've convinced everyone that regardless of how bad they are, the other guy is worse.

The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

In politics, good gets better; bad gets worse.

Political pendulums swing hard and feed on stark contrast.

You will never satisfy the far extremes on the Left and the Right.

Since when is politics consistent?

I can't go out with a Republican.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

Manhattan's probably one of the bluest parts in the country, and Indiana's definitely one of the redder states. I have sympathy for both sides.

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

I am not a centrist.

There's something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on the Left picture an inspired liberal, politically restrained in his first term but now free to pursue his true beliefs.

What Democrats call 'nuanced', most people refer to as 'stupidity.'