Newt Gingrich Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Newt Gingrich Quotes and Sayings
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A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
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An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.
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And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.
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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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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 believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.
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I believe we will elect a new President in 2012.
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I discourage a cult of personality.
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I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.
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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.
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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 the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?
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If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
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If you're not brave, you're not going to be free.
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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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In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
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In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.
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It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.
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One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.
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Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them.
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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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Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
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President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.
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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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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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The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.
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The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
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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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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.
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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.
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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.
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Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.
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You can't trust anybody with power.
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You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.
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