Ken Mehlman Quotes (85 Quotes)

What's interesting is you could have showed me an article about 20 years ago in The Washington Post that predicted that Ronald Reagan was a lame duck.

One of the things this requires us to do is rethink how does our nation do in helping folks who are in need,

While I don't dispute the fact that we have challenges in the current environment politically, I also believe 2006 as a choice election offers Republicans an opportunity if we make sure the election is framed in a way that will keep our majorities in the House and the Senate.

I think he's focused on a lot of things - working to help people at the White House and talking to people on the Hill about the agenda next year, and he's certainly focused on the '06 elections.

Since 1973, the voters of Virginia have voted differently from whoever is in the White House,

The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue.

The public believes that the country needs to continue reforming things if we are going to be on the right track.

will not interfere with the administration's management of the war on terror.

Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able to own their own Social Security so that Congress can't spend it on other things?

What this president says is we need to move from a regulatory system that creates dependency to an opportunity society that creates ownership and says more folks can own their own home and poor parents can choose where their kids go to school and poor peo

The unprecedented dedication to enacting President Bush's agenda, and the commitment to supporting Republican candidates nationwide, is helping provide the resources needed to accomplish our goals in 2006.

Our party for the longest time has relied on the votes of white guys. I think that all of these candidates are going to improve our party, our policies, and our nation.

As Republican chairman, I am proud of my party and loyal to our members. But if Republicans are guilty of illegal or inappropriate behavior, they should pay the price and suffer the consequences.

I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect.

The effect of the Internet on politics will be every bit as transformational as television was. If you want to get your message out, the old way of paying someone to make a TV ad is insufficient You need your message out through the Internet, through e-mail, through talk radio.

this kind of political doublespeak sends exactly the wrong message to our troops, to the Iraqis and to our terrorist enemies.

Senator Edwards called the president a 'phony,' and just last night said the president couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time. Both Edwards and Kerry regularly divide our country, with yesterday's class warfare rhetoric of two Americas. And these are the Democrats who claim to be running positive campaigns.

I don't know the answer to that question. I don't think it matters to the fundamental question here because at bottom, this president believes in non-discrimination.

Reaching out to Hispanics is critical to our future. The fastest-growing, and most conservative, segment of the population are natural Republicans.

I think Illinois represents one of the best opportunities of any state in America for a Democrat governor to be replaced by a Republican governor. And truth is, I think it actually represents one of the best opportunities for an incumbent governor of eith

While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart.

America is a country, as everyone here knows and lives every single day, where your aspirations matter more than your origins,

We're making history today for the number of grassroots donors, the scope and breadth of donors, as well as amount raised and saved.

Both parties have had a gender gap Democrats with men and Republicans with women. At the moment, our gender gap has been fixed, and theirs hasn't.

It is our sincere hope that justice will remain blind to politics. As Tom DeLay clearly stated today, House Republicans will continue to focus on the business of the American people.

We're about to move from a referendum on Bush debate to a choice debate. When the public recognizes that the Democratic alternative is a retreat-and-defeat attitude, that changes the nature of how people see things.

who recognize the importance of sharing the American dream with people who didn't have it before.

The fact is this campaign is unprecedented in our praise of our opponent's service during Vietnam, ... Meet the Press.

I disagree with that analysis very much and believe he has been a great servant for the state and also for the party.

Maybe he was responding to James Carville, who warned the Democrats that the public wanted reform. The Democrats seem stuck in concrete.

We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen.

There is no question we're in difficult political times, ... Meet the Press.

So what we have is a president that has brought this issue before the American people. We now understand that we can't wait. We understand every year we wait it gets $600 billion worse.

What we've been trying to do is what we believe will help us close the gap we see in America in terms of education, health care, home ownership and wealth. We have policies that will actually achieve those goals.

John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man. I would respectfully disagree with that.