Top 100 Newt Gingrich Quotes
#1. I intend to go up there and kick the system over, not try to change it.
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#2. The terrorism danger to the United States is even worse than September 11th, when 19 hijackers murdered almost 3,000 Americans.
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#3. I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid.
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#4. If you import a commercial quantity of illegal drugs ... it is because you have made the personal decision that you are prepared to get rich by destroying our children. I have made the decision that I love our children enough that we will kill you if you do this.
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#5. What's the job of the candidate in this world? The job of the candidate is to raise the money to hire the consultants to do the focus groups to figure out the 30-second answers to be memorized by the candidate. This is stunningly dangerous.
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#6. If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.
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#7. So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.
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#8. I'm opposed to giving people money for doing nothing.
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#9. Input of public judgement for any major tax reform.
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#10. What I said was: We want everybody to learn English because we don't want - I didn't use the word 'Spanish.'
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#11. 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.
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#12. More than just a zoo, the Animal Kingdom is an extraordinary experience of animals, rides and performances. The exhibits have the scale and creativity you associate with Disney. The African safari ride is terrific and worth riding several times.
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#13. My fine friends who are perfectionists, each in their own world where they are petty dictators, could write a perfect bill. Those of us who have grown up and matured ... understand that we have to work together on the big issues.
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#14. We have to frankly break the back of the secular-socialist machine, elect people committed to representing the American people, and then methodically rip the system apart.
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#15. The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.
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#16. 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.
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#17. I don't understand why they call it public broadcasting. As far as I am concerned, there's nothing public about it; it's an elitist enterprise. 'Rush Limbaugh' is public broadcasting.
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#18. We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.
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#19. America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization.
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#20. I think you can write a psychological profile of me that says I found a way to immerse my insecurities in a cause large enough to justify whatever I wanted it to.
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#21. The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
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#22. I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.
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#23. People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz.
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#24. Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers.
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#25. I've been very clear publicly I'm not a perfect human being, and I've made mistakes in my life, and I've had to apologize to God and to seek reconciliation.
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#26. My style is to stay on the offensive: to take risks, to recover very fast when you make a mistake, but to keep moving forward.
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#27. Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.
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#28. Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal.
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#29. What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]? That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.
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#30. When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.
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#31. Because I am much like Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, I'm such an unconventional political figure that you really need to design a unique campaign that fits the way I operate.
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#32. What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can't help it if liberal books don't sell.
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#34. As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, America gave him the White House based on the same credentials.
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#35. 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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#36. The most important social welfare program in America is a job.
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#37. 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.
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#38. So when you hear about Hillary's [Clinton] dishonesty, or the emails, or taking millions from the Saudis and other Middle Eastern dictatorships - remember, this is not about politics.
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#39. To the degree I was too brash, Too self-confident or too pushy, I apologize.
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#40. What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.
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#41. Philosophically, I am very different from normal politicians, and normal consultants found that very hard to deal with.
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#42. Public Broadcasting is a sandbox for the rich. The NEA and the HEH are simply enclaves of the left using your money to propagandize your children against your values.
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#43. 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.
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#44. Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
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#45. Heterosexual marriage is the heart of our civilization.
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#46. Iran - the world's leading sponsor of terrorism - is close to having nuclear weapons.
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#47. 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.
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#48. It is false to suggest that Thomas Jefferson or any other Founding Father believed in a legal barrier to God in the public square.
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#49. On the battlefield of ideas, winning requires moving toward the sound of the guns.
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#50. You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week.
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#51. Maybe Governor Romney in the spirit of openness should tell us how much money he's made off of how many households that have been foreclosed by his investments.
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#52. Trump would represent turmoil - unless he changed, unless he said, 'Now that I got to be president, I'm gonna be normal.'
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#53. As a citizen, I would rather have a President McCain that we fight with 20% of the time, than a President Clinton or a President Obama that we fight with 90% of the time.
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#55. If you're not brave, you're not going to be free.
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#56. All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care.
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#57. If we are all endowed by our creator with the right to pursue happiness, that has to apply to the poorest neighborhoods in the poorest counties, and I am prepared to find something that works, that breaks us out of the cycles we have now to find a way for poor children to work and earn honest money.
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#58. I think my health is probably fine. Let's be honest, you never know what could happen to somebody, but I think I'm in very good shape right now.
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#59. Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash' unless it's illegal.
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#60. To have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think.
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#61. We have got to get beyond this political bologna. I'm not allowed to say anything positive about Hillary Clinton because then I'm not a loyal Republican, and she's not allowed to say anything positive about me because then she's not a loyal Democrat. What a stupid way to run a country.
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#62. If you've been here 15 years and you've got three kids and grandkids and you've been paying taxes and obeying the law, you belong to a local church, I don't think we're going to separate you from your family, uproot you forcefully and kick you out.
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#63. Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas.
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#64. White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw.
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#66. If you're not in 'The Washington Post' every day, you might as well not exist.
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#67. The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media.
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#69. 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.
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#70. The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.
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#71. If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections ... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.
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#72. Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood,
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#73. I think what you'll find is overall, overwhelmingly, evangelicals would prefer me to Barack Obama.
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#74. Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess.
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#75. If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?
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#76. We should end the Environmental Protection Agency's war against American oil and gas.
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#77. We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?
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#78. There's a large part of me that's four years old. I wake up in the morning and I know that somewhere there's a cookie. I don't know where it is but I know it's mine and I have to go find it. That's how I live my life. My life is amazingly filled with fun.
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#79. I was once, I think, bitten on the nose by a lion cub.
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#80. [The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism.
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#81. This is a candidate who never even thought about policy. What Trump represents is pure willpower and the notion of breaking through the system.
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#82. I think we've had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs, and who were historically part of the Arab community.
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#83. There I was on the front page of the 'London Times' as speaker of the House with an animal on top of my head. I liked it, but it was not what my staff thought was appropriately dignified.
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#84. See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn't change, only the morality ... That's why you get to go to jail and I don't.
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#85. Gingrich - Primary mission, Advocate of civilization, Definer of civilization, Teacher of the rules of civilization, Leader of the civilizing forces.
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#86. The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and does not believe in data that it has not internally generated.
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#87. 1995 government shutdown from GOP underestimating Clinton.
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#88. I have enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I'm doing it. I am now a famous person. I represent real power.
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#89. While abolishing judgeships and lower federal courts is a blunt tool and one whose use is warranted only in the most extreme of circumstances ... it is one of many possibilities to check and balance the judiciary.
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#90. Trump has got to, I think, move to a new level. This is no longer the primaries. He's no longer an interesting contender. He is now the potential leader of the United States and he's got to move his game up to the level of being a potential leader.
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#91. Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail ... President Reagan is clearly failing.
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#92. I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there's a package there that's very, very good,
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#93. Now, we don't get rid of it in round one because we don't think that that's politically smart, and we don't think that's the right way to go through a transition. But we believe it's going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it - voluntarily.
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#94. 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.
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#96. We have to be as militant defending America as the enemies of America are in trying to destroy America.
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#97. The most powerful force changing our society is the information revolution.
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#98. We do agree that our country must take action to address climate change.
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#99. If we'd had government on [today's] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that railroads could not travel faster than a horse because it would be an unfair competitive advantage.
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#100. Our rights come from our Creator and it is impossible to define America if you do not talk in public about where your rights come from.
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