Pete du Pont Quotes

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

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

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.

There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today.

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.

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