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 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.

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