Top 44 Du Pont Quotes
#1. I got no support from USA Wrestling. I was competing against professional Russians that do nothing but wrestle for a living, and I was forced to take a job working for this lowlife loser, John du Pont, who I didn't want in my life. I just wanted the money.
Mark Schultz
#2. In 1996, I was the head coach at Brigham Young University. And I got a call from my dad, and he said my brother had been murdered by du Pont. And it just infuriated me to just no end. And I think I destroyed everything in my office.
Mark Schultz
#3. I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up.
Pete Du Pont
#4. They wrong opportunity who say she knocks but once
Pete Du Pont
#5. 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.
Pete Du Pont
#6. If you have to, cut back on other things. But always fill your life with books.
Manoj Arora
#7. Back at home I spent so much time on my own, but never once felt lonely. Here, even though I see hundreds more people each day, I've never felt lonelier.
Giovanna Fletcher
#8. Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move ... To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example
George S. Patton
#9. 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.
Pete Du Pont
#10. Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.
Pete Du Pont
#11. 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.
Pete Du Pont
#12. The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.
Vera Kistiakowsky
#13. That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.
Pete Du Pont
#14. 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.
Pete Du Pont
#15. Transforming a team, let alone an entire organisation, from the principles of command and control to those based on servant-leadership, from plans based on prediction to plans based on empirical, evolutionary data requires both patience and tenacity.
Geoff Watts
#16. Take the fact that you were created to love. Your heart can find real joy only through love - through loving and being loved.
Thomas Goodwin
#17. 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.
Pete Du Pont
#18. Moderates shouldn't be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he's laid it forward. He's fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go.
Pete Du Pont
#19. There's no law against admiring a best friend's sister.
Coleen Kwan
#20. 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.
Pete Du Pont
#21. Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Internet is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.
Pete Du Pont
#22. 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.
Pete Du Pont
#24. I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
Larry Wall
#25. If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?
Pete Du Pont
#26. Love of fate?" "It means acceptance. Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced, I suppose.
Kate Atkinson
#27. One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy.
Pete Du Pont
#28. There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today.
Pete Du Pont
#30. Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
Pete Du Pont
#31. 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.
Pete Du Pont
#32. We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.
Pete Du Pont
#33. 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.
Pete Du Pont
#34. Throughout my professional life, I have looked upon the Corps as a most valuable part of our naval organization, and this opinion has only been the more confirmed by every year's additional experience in active service.
Samuel Francis Du Pont
#35. Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and the California legislature around the country.
Pete Du Pont
#36. Newt has two transitions behind him. First he had to capture control of the House. He had to get the Republican budget through. He had to get the Contract With America through. He has done that.
Pete Du Pont
#37. 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.
Pete Du Pont
#38. Newt changed the frame of reference of all of our candidates. That's why we won so big in 1994.
Pete Du Pont
#40. Absolute intolerance also provides long growth.
Adolf Hitler
#41. Best cure for depression? Watch Indian movies. They will make you laugh, cry, keep you wondering how silly humans can be while being captivated by the wild range of colors used in fabrics and on buildings.
Kambiz Mostofizadeh
#42. When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place.
Rumi
#43. I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.
Pete Du Pont
#44. Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.
Pete Du Pont
