Newt Gingrich Quotes (204 Quotes)

In some of his comments, Gingrich did appear more intent on answering critics than in laying out a detailed proposal. We will vote on a tax cut even if President Clinton opposes it, ... We will give the president a chance to veto the tax cut ... and be on the side of bigger government and higher spending and higher taxes.

This is a critical intersection for the president and his ability to be effective for the next three years,

We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair.

My hope is that military planning will be designed to coerce him or replace him and will not simply punish him and leave him in charge of building the weapons, ... That's not a victory. That's a defeat.

This is the most anti-openness group in the House ... they even have a problem getting together with their own caucus,

Both parties have a great opportunity -- and a great risk. One of the two parties is going to be the party that brings the country into the 21st century . . . and you can't say today which party will win that battle.

All free people stand on Reagan's shoulders. His principled policies proved that free markets create wealth, that the rule of law sustains freedom, and that all people everywhere deserve the right to dream, to pursue their dreams, and to govern themselves.

If we can't respond faster than this to an event we saw coming across the Gulf for days, then why do we think we're prepared to respond to a nuclear or biological attack.

I commend the president for being flexible enough to admit he made a mistake.

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

We will do everything we can to find the money, not just for procurement but for training, for personnel and for the necessary power projection which is at the heart of America's ability to lead the world,

a heavy heart but a surprisingly happy spirit.

I think this administration tends to have the right general policies but to be remarkably unwilling to look at how weak their instruments of implementation are. We threw away a year in Iraq because of our mistakes.

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,

I think it's a major mistake to add primaries at the very beginning, ... because you've earned it.

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.

It's pretty hard to argue that the only team to have been successful in 70 years somehow ought to be replaced by somebody who has not ever won a nationwide election,

This is not one person doing one bad thing. You can't have a corrupt lobbyist unless you have a corrupt member (of Congress) or a corrupt staff. ... This was a team effort.

Every year that we wait, the risk increases. I would hope that the administration would decide to do something decisive. . . . We have the military power in the region if we need it. It's a question of whether we have the will.

We are committed to setting aside the 700 billion dollars in surplus for tax cuts, ... Having taken care of Social Security, we believe the extra money should go to tax cuts. Period.

puts into question all of the Homeland Security and Northern Command planning for the last four years.

If you go to Switzerland in winter, you should expect snow,

I urge my colleagues to pick leaders who can both reconcile and discipline, who can work together and communicate effectively.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

I helped convince him to run (for Congress) ... when he was going to retire I helped make him Appropriations chairman,

Listen to him talk about Republicans who lost their seats last November When you realize how many of them lost because the Democrats and the unions lied about Medicare, ... it just infuriates you to take casualties that shouldn't be there and that, I think, frankly, are immoral and dishonorable.

a long time coming.

are really helping us make our case by drawing clearly the attention to the way in which they would write the tax cut bill so actually it is an increased welfare bill from their standpoint. We are directing the tax cuts to taxpayers.

Except for the request of the president, I would not have delayed it the vote,

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.

I love the environment, but I'm cheap on the environment.

If this goes down and we end up in a steep, worldwide depression, some of us will have the comfort of knowing we cast the right vote,

Most of the offices were surprised to learn about it when it was announced at the White House,

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

Do they understand that beyond getting past the unhappiness with this choice, there is a profound sense of discontent within the conservative movement

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,

It functions like an afterthought. We couldn't have designed a greater invitation to unhappiness.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as 'candle making industry threatened.'

The heart of the tape is a convicted felon saying he is going to roll over one more time and a federal employee saying to her husband, 'I'm being squeezed by the White House.' That's the heart of these tapes,

It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't read

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,

Sooner or later, I think that the public's right to know is more important than whether or not these people go to jail,

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

much bigger story here and history will prove that it was best to wait for the report.

We believe there ought to be a tax cut for those who save, invest and create jobs. And I'm very prepared to take on any kind of class warfare argument,

House Speaker Newt Gingrich said, I am glad now that the election is over to see that the president has agreed that we need to save Medicare. ... remarkable coming from this administration, given how they characterized them last year.

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.

I'm not at all sure you can get to that this year and I'm not at all sure that it's a smart idea to try to get to that this year,

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.

Everyone should make up their own minds, ... important issues.