Pete du Pont Quotes

Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.

Part of the challenge of being a black Republican anywhere is that you start off with people walking in with chips on their shoulder trying to figure out what is wrong with you.

Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the fact that I'm a black Republican and some people think of that as zany that a black person would be a conservative but to me what is zany is any person black, white, red, brown or yellow not being a conservative.

I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans...unless they have too much education and vote Democratic

Blacks as a group have voted Democratic since the 1930s. The GOP has not courted them in any real way since the 1960s, focusing instead on attracting white constituencies hostile to civil rights and African-Americans in general.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.

I'm a conservative Republican, and I'm not a member of the Tea Party Caucus, but I have very good friends that are.

You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.

I'm pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican.

I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.

I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn't exist about America.

I think if you look all across the country, the so-called Blue Dogs are all gone to kennel. There are no more Blue Dogs, they're called Republicans. People would rather elect consistently conservative Republicans than Blue Dogs, who are only conservative when it's convenient.