Newt Gingrich Quotes on Government (13 Quotes)

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

We're now looking ahead to what we're going to do in the next two years, next three years, but I think it's in the same model of trying to continue to move towards a reformed federal government.

This is a crossroads for the Bush presidency. This is a very exciting period about what is effective government in the 21st century. Either he will be FDR and lead a dramatic change of government, or he will be defender of a failed system. The biggest political challenge for the next two years is to re-centre the government.

There's a very broad feeling in the Congress that Israel's security and the right of the Israeli people to live in safety is a prelude to any successful long-term peace.

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.

I don't think the Congress could move forward only on Lewinsky, unless he had such a clear case, such an overpowering case, ... But I think we would be better served to know the whole story.

The city of New Orleans failed. The state of Louisiana failed. The federal government failed. It is astonishing to me that five months after the obvious failure of all three layers of government that there has been no serious systemic change.

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.

Frankly I believe that there's too little funding for intelligence, we have too few assets and too few analysts. And I think if the Congress and others are going to demand a greater capacity in intelligence we're going to have to be prepared to pay for a more sophisticated and a more intense structure of intelligence capabilities, and I think its wrong for some members of Congress to vote to cut intelligence spending, to vote to cut the number of intelligence analysts and then to set unrealistically high demands on the intelligence community.

Tonight we have a simple choice, ... We can pass one of these substitutes and this agreement will have been crippled. And it will not pass the Senate and it will not be signed by the president.

Today I have reached a difficult personal decision. I will not be a candidate for Speaker of the 106th Congress,

The prospects of Al Gore as president and a Democratic Congress should be enough to focus every Republican in the country on learning to work as a team in a positive way, to make sure that we offer a better future,

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.