Newt Gingrich Quotes on America (24 Quotes)


    There is a very big difference in where the two parties will take America, ... I sometimes get distressed by our friends in the media because they try to reduce everything to gossip, scandal-mongering and cynicism that I think is profoundly false for this country's future. There is an enormous difference in the two parties. We would go two very different places.

    In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

    America and Israel are such good friends, we can work out any disagreements we might have. Frankly, I believe the peace process will move forward. I think that honest, open discussions are very useful.

    has to be a criminal offense of the first order. How can you have an American president asking for money from foreign leaders ...I think this is one of the most disturbing revelations we've ever had about an American president because it would indicate a total absence of judgement that really, I think, puts the nation in substantial danger.

    All of us who participated in the Contract with America were standing on Ronald Reagan's shoulders,


    My fear is the composition of this commission, which is very, very traditional in its assumptions about government in America and the direction of the president's efforts to maintain quotas and set-asides while claiming he's against them, that that in fact will divert us and make it harder to solve problems,

    I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.

    We think you can get a balanced budget and you can get a tax cut, ... We think both can be done this year, and we're trying to find a way to make sure that we have every opportunity to both balance the budget with smaller government, with reforms, and to have tax cuts for the American people.

    We clearly need the Republican Party to reacquire a movement that designs a 21st century Contract with America.

    This president would have us believe that with all of the resources, ingenuity, dedication and passion of the American people, we can't even get half way to victory in the war on drugs until the year 2007 -- nine full years from now, ... That is not success that is the definition of failure. ... We cannot accept this administration's proposed timetable for defeat.

    I frankly don't understand all of the things that happened yesterday, and I'm not sure anyone else in America does either,

    The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

    We owe the American people the right to know what happened. They have the right to know whether or not the American government was undermined by the Chinese.

    It's impossible to defend something like this happening in America,

    The concept of the American secretary of state going to Damascus to meet with a terrorist-supporting, secret-police-wielding dictator is ludicrous, ... The United States military has created an opportunity to apply genuine economic, diplomatic and political pressure on Syria.

    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.

    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.

    We shouldn't go into one big liberal fantasy that only if we had the right bureaucracy of non-smoking with the right pamphlet, every 13-year-old in America would be convinced.

    It happened in America because for two generations, we haven't had the guts to talk about right and wrong,

    I wrote a book called 'To Renew America,' and I look up at a sign that says, 'Renewing America's Purpose,' ... I feel that they're building at what we did, and I feel actually, very comfortable with it.

    If we renew American civilization, if we restore faith, if we defeat the drug culture, if we reestablish incentives, if we decentralize so local volunteers and local leaders create local solutions, if we replace ignorance with knowledge so that every citizen is able to pursue happiness, I think we could in a generation give our grandchildren the kind of America which would let them lead the entire human race,

    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.

    What the president should recognize is that the American people are tired of thousands of pages of regulations, of audits they don't understand by agents they can't talk with from a bureaucracy they can't control,

    I want to get this bill signed, so for the first time in 16 years, the American people have a tax cut, but we're not going to give it up flippantly, we're going to work to keep it. I think the president has to look at what does he want. He's not going to get everything he wants this is not a one-way street.


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