Newt Gingrich Quotes
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The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
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Only the elites despise earning money.
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Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for 'religious toleration' are arrogantly dishonest.
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If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he's black, we would all go crazy.
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Think about it. If it's taking pictures, it's not a cellphone. If it has a McDonald's app to tell you where McDonald's is based on your GPS location, that's not a cellphone. If you can get Wikipedia or go to Google, that's not a cellphone.
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I can tell you I can work on four or five hours of sleep a night and cat nap all day, and I can go for 8 or 10 days on the road, and it doesn't seem to affect me.
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I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.
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If we are all endowed by our creator with the right to pursue happiness, that has to apply to the poorest neighborhoods in the poorest counties, and I am prepared to find something that works, that breaks us out of the cycles we have now to find a way for poor children to work and earn honest money.
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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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Frankly, I would not have made any difference in Vietnam, but much more is what difference it would have made in me.
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The genius of guys like Lincoln and Reagan and FDR - the great communicator leaders - is that they're actually educators, so they understand when they use a phrase that they have to explain it, because, by definition, you won't understand it or they wouldn't need to be using it.
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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 have a sense of being at peace. I understand when you give the sign of peace, and when the priest says, 'Peace be with you,' in a way I never did 10 or 15 years ago. I have a deep personal sense of what that means.
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Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.
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It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.
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The president of the United States, the most radical president in American history, has now thrown down the gauntlet to the American people. He has said, 'I run a machine, I own Washington, and there's nothing you can do about it.' Now, that's where we are.
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Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas.
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Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
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The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful.
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Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and terrorists who are dangerous already and who would be brutal in power if given the chance.
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This is a candidate who never even thought about policy. What Trump represents is pure willpower and the notion of breaking through the system.
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The most important social welfare program in America is a job.
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The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up.
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If you import a commercial quantity of illegal drugs, it is because you have made the personal decision that you are prepared to get rich by destroying our children. I have made the decision that I love our children enough that we will kill you if you do this.