Newt Gingrich Quotes (204 Quotes)


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

    I urge Saddam Hussein to save the people of Iraq from violence, ... I urge him to take a step toward ultimately someday lifting the sanctions, I urge him to comply with United Nations resolution, and I want him to know that.

    Imagine a party that grew over the next four years as much as we've grown over the last four.

    What you are building, if you build it right, if you dedicate yourself to perfection, will allow the people across the planet to be free for the next half century, will allow America to lead the world,

    It is a bill which clearly is going to be decisive in helping us move towards stopping illegal immigration,


    The last seven months have involved six months of diplomatic failure and one month of military success, ... The first days after military victory indicate the pattern of diplomatic failure is beginning once again and threatens to undo the effects of military victory.

    It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003. We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it

    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.

    Isn't that the complete clear implication of that tape And shouldn't somebody at the White House have a law enforcement responsibility to find out did the White House, in fact, threaten her job. Shouldn't that person be fired summarily

    On the Supreme Court striking down a law barring indecent ... I think we're better to have a crash program to develop an inexpensive software package for parents to allow them to monitor the sets for their kids. It is doable and the technology is available and it's legitimate for parents as parents to monitor what their children see on the Internet.

    I spent 40 years of my life getting us here, ... The idea that I would be the excuse to cannibalize the majority is so sickening I couldn't risk it.


    It's the loan a wonderful step on his part and at the same time he's going to get a good commercial interest rate and he'll make money,

    By the end of today, both presidential candidates will have taken steps of admitting that we have to have personal control of our retirement savings and then we have to move toward a new model to deal with the baby boomers and their children,

    He can come down firmly on the side of bold dramatic change, in which case he will be in the Teddy Roosevelt tradition, or he can tolerate bureaucratic inadequacies and defend the indefensible, in which case the Democrats will win in 2006 and 2008.

    I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

    You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

    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.

    If you are a fiscal conservative who cares about balancing the federal budget, there may be no more important vote in your career than one in support of this bill,

    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.

    I think they are showing a greater willingness to look for new suggestions, new ideas, new approaches than at any time in the presidency. I think they realize the larger system has failed They are not where they want to be on Iraq the first week after Katrina was an absolute failure.

    I pledge right here working with the president that we will work in a bipartisan basis ... to enact in 1999 the right savings and the right steps to reform the system for the baby boomers and their children,

    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.

    We've had a bad three months, so it's a dangerous period for us, ... We have to change or we run the risk of defeat.

    It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.

    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.

    That is such a huge level of fraud and error and waste that we believe the (IRS) should be overhauled now,

    We're talking with the administration, ... It seems to me possible that there could be an administration agreement to get to a balanced budget deal in the next couple of weeks.

    Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.

    I believe we will elect a new President in 2012.

    If those of us who are conservative say that bureaucracy and compulsion are not the answer, ... then what are we going to say to a child born in a poor neighborhood with a broken home and no one to help them rise.

    Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.

    gratified that the committee has decided to take no action.

    We give him the benefit of the doubt because of his history as a credible guy. But to say there would be no hard feelings if he dumped a lot of questions and few answers on us would be an understatement.

    When I visit Tibet next August I hope he and the Dalai Lama will be there to greet me,

    You have to ask how much did they know, did they brief the administration on it and what were they doing And then, second, you have to ask if you really want the kind of real time coverage that some people want, are you willing to pay for that level of asset and level of analysis It's a very expensive proposition.

    Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

    We thank the president for wishing to continue the dialogue on race last weekend, but frankly, there has been much talk on this issue and very little action of the sort which will dramatically change people's lives,

    The degree to which the conservative movement is dissatisfied is very real. Conservatism is at its biggest crossroads since Reagan was nominated in 1980.

    My goal was to establish a Republican majority for a long time, not just to win three elections,

    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.

    a key member of the team that created the first Republican majority in 40 years ... And I think Bill had accomplished something so enormous, in terms of his career, that he felt very comfortable that he had made a major contribution to his country's future.

    The people helping us have apparently been killed, ... Saddam is still in charge. We are trying to help somebody who doesn't want help, in order to hurt somebody we are not hurting, in order to save people who just got killed. I am not sure what the policy is about.

    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,

    undermining the core values of civility -- and it's time they were stopped by a society that values free speech enough to protect it.

    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.

    We're not in a values fight now but over whether the system is working. The issue is delivery.

    Well, it depends on whether the president instructs his staff to testify. It depends on whether the attitude is obstruction or the attitude is cooperation. And, I think at the moment we don't know what will happen.

    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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