Newt Gingrich Quotes
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The government shut down 12 times under Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill. It was only shut down twice while I was speaker.
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I read 'Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them,' and I found frightening pieces that related to... my own life.
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I helped Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp develop supply-side economics.
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My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves.
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One of my messages to Republicans is very simple: One-third of your schedule should be listening to people in minority communities.
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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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I'm opposed to giving people money for doing nothing.
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I discourage a cult of personality.
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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.
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President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.
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If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by.
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If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.
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Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.
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We have to frankly break the back of the secular-socialist machine, elect people committed to representing the American people, and then methodically rip the system apart.
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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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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
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If you're not brave, you're not going to be free.
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If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?
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I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee.
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I would just say, if Gov. Romney wants to give back all the money he's earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years at Bain, that I would be glad to listen to him. And I would bet you $10 - not $10,000 - that he would not take the offer.
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I think conservatives can be for very tough-minded trade.
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Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.
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So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.
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I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.