Newt Gingrich Quotes (204 Quotes)


    I try to avoid doing any business on the golf course, ... because my golf is so bad it might lead someone to try to take advantage of me on the grounds that my business sense must be as bad as my golf skills.

    Unless the commission has a dramatically different agenda and a dramatically different approach than the same tired, old, big-government liberalism, it'll be like the commissions we've had for 30 years.

    If the president is willing to sign a bill that has those reforms, which everybody agrees intellectually are needed in the long run, no one denies that we have to have some pretty basic reforms as people live longer and baby boomers head towards retirement, if he's willing to work with us, I think that we can get something done, but frankly he can kill that by simply indicating he won't support it, ... It's too difficult to carry reforms of that size against the president, so he has a unique burden of having to decide whether or not he can accept that.

    Any effort to explain Iraq as 'We are on track and making progress' is nonsense, ... The left has a constant drumbeat that this is Vietnam and a bottomless pit. The daily and weekly casualties leave people feeling that things aren't going well.



    It is our historic destiny and fate, there is no other country big enough, complex enough or capable of providing leadership on a worldwide basis.

    the heart of the tax package that we ran in in 1994 is going to be signed into law by President Clinton.

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

    Instead of Theodore Roosevelt's 'talk softly and carry a big stick,' we have yelled and carried a toothpick, ... And what has happened The people we are protecting are driven out or killed or raped, the people that are under the shelter of the U.S. are no longer in Kosovo.

    The chair will enforce this rule of decorum with respect to references to the president, and asks and expects the cooperation of all members in maintaining a level of decorum that properly dignifies the proceedings of the House,

    I don't understand how people can rush to a solution before they finish the investigation, ... There's an awful lot of evidence that hasn't been gathered yet. People need to allow the process to go forward in an orderly manner and not assume that they know what the final outcome will be either way.

    If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

    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.

    As a test of the homeland security system, this was a failure. It's important for the president to lead the nation in saying -- and he has already said -- that this is unacceptable. This is not a moment to defend inadequacy. It's a moment to respond very aggressively to human suffering and establish a vision of a more secure, more prosperous Gulf Coast.

    It's not the absence of money, ... It is a failure of bureaucratic structures.

    The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

    My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results.

    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.

    Sometimes I think if they offered more real leadership and less rhetoric, we'd get a lot more done,

    There was no finding by the committee that I purposely tried to deceive anyone,

    As speaker of the House, I have a national obligation to all my members to be in their districts and go out and spread the message,

    For so many Americans, what goes on here in Washington often seems abstract and remote, unrelated to their daily concerns,

    I think Secretary Powell is an extraordinary figure and I think he's a very effective advocate, but I think he is currently presiding over an institution that's broken,

    When you wake up in the morning and lose 14 marines, people say, 'What's going on'

    The current system failed and we have to dramatically improve it, dramatically change it and we'd better do it now before another hurricane or before a terrorist attack... Is Bush going to face up to the absolute disaster of the state, city and federal government failing to perform ... The country knows (the system) failed.

    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.

    there are pieces of the bill he Clinton doesn't like, that's why we're going to have a conference, Chairman Archer will be there, making a passionate argument. I'm sure that Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin will be there making some convoluted and complex idea that none of us will understand, but it will be an interesting negotiation, and I look forward to Bill Archer being successful. Then at the end of the day, I think the president will sign the bill.

    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.

    I could hardly stand by and allow the party to cannibalize itself in that situation, and I felt it (the decision to step down) was best for all of us.

    In Henry's case, it's human and it's personal and he's a decent and wonderful man, and many of you have known him over the years, ... And I think if you were to drop him a little note and let him know that you share his pain and you're sorry that doing his duty leads to that kind of treatment by this White House, I think he would be deeply grateful, because he's a wonderful person.

    It's a remarkably conservative budget agreement to have with a liberal Democrat in the White House, ... From every reasonable standpoint, this is a budget that every conservative ought to vote for.

    I think we prefer to go to instant check on an immediate basis and try to accelerate implementing instant checks so that you could literally check by thumb print whether there was a convicted felon with dangerous behavior or dangerous mental behavior. Instant check is a much better system than the Brady process.


    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.

    If allowed to stand, this decision will place the lives of our brave fighting men and women -- and ultimately millions of Americans -- in jeopardy,

    I don't think anybody should be a distraction, ... I think the country is bigger than all of us.

    We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?

    He gave his word he would sign the emergency aid bill and put politics to one side, I think he should keep his word, and sign the bill,

    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.

    People can walk out, but what I'm saying is a fact about a crime,

    If you're not brave, you're not going to be free.

    For the entire history of the human race, the Chinese have never been actively involved in Europe, and now in a few short months the Clinton-Gore Administration has managed to fashion a policy that gives the Chinese a voice in Europe,

    No Palestinian official should talk about or threaten bloodshed, but yet it is a routine pattern in this region for the Palestinian Authority to, in effect, incite violence,

    A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

    We may be at the end of a 40-year cycle of bitterness. I've spent enough of my life fighting. It would be nice to spend some time constructing, and I think that there's a feel in the country that's very similar.

    We are mutually concerned about getting the peace process to continue to move forward, ... We also share a belief that prosperity is the key to long-term peace, and want to create more jobs in the Palestinian Authority's region.

    Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

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


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