Newt Gingrich Quotes (204 Quotes)

between those who would keep taxes higher on taxpayers to transfer the money to welfare recipients, and those of us who believe that after 16 years, it is actually time to have a bill dedicated to helping taxpayers and to giving mothers and fathers more take-home pay and resources to take care of their children.

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,

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

This will be the first time in 70 years that Republicans kept control of the House for a third term, ... We will gain seats this evening as the evening goes on.

I discourage a cult of personality.

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.

President Mubarak has been a leader in trying to bring peace to the Middle East.

We find ourselves where with a Democratic president and a Republican congress and we have an absolute moral obligation to make this system work.

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

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.

Traditional politics is dominated by and defended by a collection of elites who are deeply opposed to the solutions America needs to renew its civilization and ensure its economic and national security interests. These elites want a dramatically different world from the values and aspirations of most Americans.

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.

Assuming that 1997 is a continuation of what he (Clinton) campaigned on this year, there's no reason that we can't find common ground.

the U.S. leading the world by exercising its military power in an appropriate way.

All they have left is to smear the speaker because they can't solve Medicare, they can't solve welfare and they can't balance the budget. This is the last pathetic thing they've got,

I believe on the issue of the 500-per-child tax credit, the president absolutely will sign the bill.

We have a chance today to say to the world, no matter what our constitutional process, whether it is an election eve or it is the eve of a constitutional vote, no matter what our debates at home, we are as a nation prepared to lead the world,

I think a lot of our members resent the kind of muscle that the union bosses have brought into the Capitol,

My deepest belief is that all of this is part of a much bigger story and that we have to wait until we've seen the report before we can reach any judgment,

He was a kind soul with a rare ability to make people laugh, ... lost a very, very dear friend.

And then we listen more and we say 'But why are you going to do this' and we listen more and at some point, most of the members say, 'I don't want to talk any more. If I vote 'yes,' can I leave' And it's a brutal system,

If you have another year of the last few months, it would be very difficult for the Republicans to retain control.

How this president handles the Middle East in general and wins in Iraq in particular will be probably the most important definition of his presidency.

This is the people's house, and I deplore the actions of the person who brought violence within these sacred halls.

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

This was such a stunning collapse of modern government that people understand that it's really not about personality,

Unequivocally, the House Republicans need to select a new majority leader in late January or early February.

If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?

It should serve as a wake-up call to Republicans, and I certainly take it very seriously in analyzing how the public mood evidences itself, ... Who is willing to show up and vote is different than who answers a public opinion poll. Clearly, there's a pretty strong signal for Republicans thinking about 2006 that they need to do some very serious planning and not just assume that everything is going to be automatically okay.

I don't want to be critical of the White House, but the key is to put the Iraqi campaign in the context of a regional struggle that includes elements in Syria , Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and then put that in the context of the larger struggle against the irreconcilable wing of Islam,

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

It is not my habit to answer questions posed to me when I am halfway out the door with my back turned ... The speaker and I continue to work as effectively as we have for the last four years.

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

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

personal, modern Social Security system.

The key was to do it in a legal and ethical way that everybody can look at and say, 'Yes, this sets the right standard for the U.S. House of Representatives and this is the way people should act in a responsible manner,

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.

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 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.

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

Medicaid is projected to spend 340 billion in 2006 in combined federal and state dollars. I encourage everyone to think of this program not as a problem, but as an opportunity for real progress, ... A 21st Century Responsible Citizen Medicaid Act would empower those who depend on Medicaid and align incentives so that patients receive markedly better care at lower cost in an environment where physicians, hospitals, pharmacists and nursing homes compete for patients based on the value of their services.

The Cornerstone Community School provides hope and academic excellence to students in our area ... Newt and I are pleased to contribute to this effort.

Could it be possible that their bureaucrats don't have a clue about how the modern, instantaneous, real-time, worldwide money-markets work

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.

As a citizen, my observation is if a independent counsel believes that by gathering evidence from people who were in casual social circumstances might unlock whether or not there was a criminal conspiracy, I think he should interview anybody he thinks is an appropriate witness,

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.

I think he is one of the two greatest presidents of the 20th century, along with Franklin Delano Roosevelt, ... He shaped both America and the world, and they are different places than they would have been without Ronald Reagan.

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.

I have people who come to this floor, who claim they represent the workers, who say they are for an international bank institution that is totally secret, that is run by a bureaucrat whose major policy is to raise taxes on workers in the Third World to pay off New York banks, ... Now that doesn't sound like populism to me.