Newt Gingrich Quotes
What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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I hate celebrities.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
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Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.
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In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.
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I want to be able to do any and everything. I don't want to be limited.
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Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads.
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It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God.
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What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.
