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I helped lead the effort to defeat communism in the Congress.
Newt Gingrich
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If I had to choose Reaganomics or 13 staffers quitting, I think for the average working American, Reaganomics was a much better deal.
Newt Gingrich
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We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.
Newt Gingrich
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By definition, the person who learns enough to become the nominee is almost certainly the best person for the general election.
Newt Gingrich
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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.
Newt Gingrich
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Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess.
Newt Gingrich
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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.
Newt Gingrich
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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.
Newt Gingrich
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Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for 'religious toleration' are arrogantly dishonest.
Newt Gingrich
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It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.
Newt Gingrich
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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.
Newt Gingrich
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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.
Newt Gingrich
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You've got the North Koreans building weapons; you got the Iranians building weapons. You've got - the Pakistanis already have at least 100 nuclear weapons. Do you think there's any serious effort in this country to come to grips with that?
Newt Gingrich
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The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up.
Newt Gingrich
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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.
Newt Gingrich
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I think you can write a psychological profile of me that says I found a way to immerse my insecurities in a cause large enough to justify whatever I wanted it to.
Newt Gingrich
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Alan Colmes: You're calling 'appeasers' people who disagree with the Bush policy administration -
Newt Gingrich
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Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
Newt Gingrich
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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.
Newt Gingrich
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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.
Newt Gingrich
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The most important social welfare program in America is a job.
Newt Gingrich
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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.
Newt Gingrich
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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.
Newt Gingrich
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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.
Newt Gingrich
