Newt Gingrich Quotes
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We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
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You can't trust anybody with power.
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I had a period of thinking that I would have been called 'Newt the McPherson,' as in 'Robert the Bruce.'
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The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.
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I've been very clear publicly I'm not a perfect human being, and I've made mistakes in my life, and I've had to apologize to God and to seek reconciliation.
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People have to render judgment. In my case, I've said upfront openly, I've made mistakes at times. I've had to go to God for forgiveness. I've had to seek reconciliation. But I'm also a 68-year-old grandfather, and I think people have to measure who I am now and whether I'm a person they can trust.
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Is the purpose of free elections to allow the most clever and vicious person to aggregate power, or is the purpose of free elections to enable the American people to have a serious conversation about their country's future and try to find both a policy and a personality that they think will carry to them that better future?
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We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?
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If you're not in 'The Washington Post' every day, you might as well not exist.
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All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.
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I helped Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp develop supply-side economics.
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I pray before virtually every speech and virtually every major decision.
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I got active in this business of politics and self-government in 1958 when my father, who was serving in the U.S. Army, took us to the battlefield of Verdun.
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When you come to America, you get to become an American, and Trump, who has grandparents who came to the U.S., should understand this as much as anybody.
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What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read.
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Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal.
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I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.
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Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?
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I intend to go up there and kick the system over, not try to change it.
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I think my health is probably fine. Let's be honest, you never know what could happen to somebody, but I think I'm in very good shape right now.
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The Central Park Zoo is a little gem in the middle of the city. Its penguin exhibit is terrific, and the seals are a permanent center of attraction for children.
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My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results.
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Somehow we must reintegrate the scientific with the popular and reconnect the future to the present. This is less a job for scientists, engineers, bureaucrats, and administrators and more a job for novelists, moviemakers, popularizers, and politicians.
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The fact is inner-city black districts are not the same as suburban Republican districts. That's a fact. And people need to go and learn about the whole country.