Quotes from Newt Gingrich


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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.


You've got the North Koreans building weapons; you got the Iranians building weapons. You've got - the Pakistanis already have at least 100 nuclear weapons. Do you think there's any serious effort in this country to come to grips with that?


Only the elites despise earning money.


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.


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.


The most important social welfare program in America is a job.


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


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


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.


I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird.


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


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


Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.


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


I discourage a cult of personality.


All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.


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.


I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.


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.


You can't trust anybody with power.