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Top 20 Pete du Pont Quotes (2025 Update)

Pete du Pont Quote: “I’m in a wonderful position: I’m unknown, I’m underrated, and there’s nowhere to go but up.”

1. “I’m in a wonderful position: I’m unknown, I’m underrated, and there’s nowhere to go but up.”

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Pete du Pont Quote: “Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.”

2. “Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.”

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Pete du Pont Quote: “From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences.”

3. “From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences.”

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Pete du Pont Quote: “Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying.”

4. “Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying.”

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Pete du Pont Quote: “The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He’s an insider. He’s a moderate.”

5. “The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He’s an insider. He’s a moderate.”

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Pete du Pont Quote: “That’s the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn’t work, you try another.”

6. “That’s the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn’t work, you try another.”

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Pete du Pont Quote: “One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, lets all be friends in Washington philosophy.”

7. “One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, lets all be friends in Washington philosophy.”

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Pete du Pont Quote: “Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you’re going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.”

8. “Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you’re going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.”

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Pete du Pont Quote: “Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.”

9. “Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.”

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10. “Newt Gingrich’s job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.”

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Pete du Pont Quote: “Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.”

11. “Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.”

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Pete du Pont Quote: “The sea change that has come is the information age. We don’t have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.”

12. “The sea change that has come is the information age. We don’t have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.”

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Pete du Pont Quote: “We didn’t think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn’t think the census ought to be weakened.”

13. “We didn’t think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn’t think the census ought to be weakened.”

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Pete du Pont Quote: “There’s a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.”

14. “There’s a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.”

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Pete du Pont Quote: “If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?”

15. “If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?”

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Pete du Pont Quote: “Everyone matures. When I was Newt’s age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.”

16. “Everyone matures. When I was Newt’s age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.”

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Pete du Pont Quote: “If you’re going to try to win an election, you can’t be 80 percent. You can’t say, I’m for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.”

17. “If you’re going to try to win an election, you can’t be 80 percent. You can’t say, I’m for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.”

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Pete du Pont Quote: “Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there.”

18. “Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there.”

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Pete du Pont Quote: “Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Interne is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we’re faced with an information age.”

19. “Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Interne is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we’re faced with an information age.”

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Pete du Pont Quote: “They wrong opportunity who say she knocks but once.”

20. “They wrong opportunity who say she knocks but once.”

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