Top 100 Quotes About Newt
#1. Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat.
Newt Gingrich
#2. Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.
John Podhoretz
#3. I intend to go up there and kick the system over, not try to change it.
Newt Gingrich
#4. Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and terrorists who are dangerous already and who would be brutal in power if given the chance.
Newt Gingrich
#5. 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.
Newt Gingrich
#6. He felt another tremor of emotion as he saw the faces of Chuck and Newt and Teresa in his mind's eye. A
James Dashner
#7. Teresa didn't stop. "Keep talking like that and you'll be next." Newt turned back to face them, but his face showed anything but fear.
James Dashner
#8. By definition, the person who learns enough to become the nominee is almost certainly the best person for the general election.
Newt Gingrich
#9. The terrorism danger to the United States is even worse than September 11th, when 19 hijackers murdered almost 3,000 Americans.
Newt Gingrich
#10. The Central Park Zoo is a little gem in the middle of the city. Its penguin exhibit is terrific, and the seals are a permanent center of attraction for children.
Newt Gingrich
#11. 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.
Newt Gingrich
#12. 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.
Newt Gingrich
#13. The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.
Moby
#14. 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.
Newt Gingrich
#15. I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.
Newt Gingrich
#16. I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results.
J. C. Watts
#17. If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.
Newt Gingrich
#18. We need to quit subsidizing the costs for illegal immigrants' residency in America immediately. How long will we allow them to siphon millions upon millions from honest taxpaying Americans by supporting their health care, welfare, education and criminal expenses?
Newt Gingrich
#19. 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.
Newt Gingrich
#21. I'm opposed to giving people money for doing nothing.
Newt Gingrich
#22. As [House] speaker, I came back, working with President Bill Clinton. We passed a very Reagan-like program: less regulation, lower taxes. Unemployment dropped to 4.2 percent. We created 11 million jobs.
Newt Gingrich
#23. Gingrich first backed the concept in 1993, I am for people, individuals - exactly like automobile insurance - individuals having health insurance and being required to have health insurance,
Newt Gingrich
#24. I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally and captivate the conservative movement.
Rick Perry
#25. Input of public judgement for any major tax reform.
Newt Gingrich
#26. Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.
Newt Gingrich
#27. Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force.
Charlie Norwood
#28. Stay together. Don't die."
"Well, we're all bloody inspired.
James Dashner
#29. What I said was: We want everybody to learn English because we don't want - I didn't use the word 'Spanish.'
Newt Gingrich
#30. Think about it. If it's taking pictures, it's not a cellphone. If it has a McDonald's app to tell you where McDonald's is based on your GPS location, that's not a cellphone. If you can get Wikipedia or go to Google, that's not a cellphone.
Newt Gingrich
#31. He's not a bold decision maker like Newt Gingrich is. Every time I talk to him, he says 'well let me think about it.'
Sheldon Adelson
#32. I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.
Newt Gingrich
#33. In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision.
Newt Gingrich
#34. Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefers Gingrich to you. Go triangulate yourself.
Christopher Hitchens
#35. Would you pick me? I am so much my own agent, it would be - its inconceivable.
Newt Gingrich
#36. 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.
Newt Gingrich
#37. 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.
Newt Gingrich
#38. 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.
Newt Gingrich
#39. I have six times as many Twitter followers as all the other candidates combined, but it didn't count because if it counted I'd still be a candidate; since I can't be a candidate that can't count.
Newt Gingrich
#40. 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.
Newt Gingrich
#41. 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?
Newt Gingrich
#42. NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds.
Newt Gingrich
#43. Newt Gingrich says he wants to get rid of Social Security. Who is more qualified to give this country financial advice than a guy who ran up a half-million dollar bill at Tiffany?
David Letterman
#45. 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.
Newt Gingrich
#46. If looks could kill Newt would have been on a slab
Neil Gaiman
#47. I think conservatives can be for very tough-minded trade.
Newt Gingrich
#48. The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.
Newt Gingrich
#49. 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.
Newt Gingrich
#50. I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.
Newt Gingrich
#51. If you want to see why President Obama is worried this November, watch The Hope and the Change.
Newt Gingrich
#52. The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful.
Newt Gingrich
#53. I love the environment, but I'm cheap on the environment.
Newt Gingrich
#54. The mother killing her two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we have to have change. I think people want to change and the only way you get change is to vote Republican.
Newt Gingrich
#55. Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt.
"Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired.
"Very good answer.
Kurt Vonnegut
#56. Grab what you can and fight your way to a lifeboat.' Everyone associated with the slow printed word is fast becoming the Great Crested Newt of the culture. First it was the poets, the playwrights, then the novelists. Veteran newspapermen are next.
Marisha Pessl
#58. 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.
Newt Gingrich
#59. I hated the place, Tommy. I hated every second of every day. And it was all ... your ... fault!
James Dashner
#60. You can't flip-flop and be commander-in-chief.
Newt Gingrich
#61. 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.
Newt Gingrich
#62. President Obama is a president so weak that he makes Jimmy Carter look strong.
Newt Gingrich
#63. America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization.
Newt Gingrich
#64. There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia,
Newt Gingrich
#65. [Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay." He's "given no evidence in his years in Massachusetts of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure.
Newt Gingrich
#66. 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.
Newt Gingrich
#67. That's the lamest shuck-faced thing you've ever barked," Minho said. "You're the leader, and you know it. We all know it." Newt
James Dashner
#68. You're Subject A-two," Newt answered. Then he lowered his eyes
"And?" Thomas pushed.
Newt hesitated, then answered without looking at him. "It doesn't call you anything. It just says ... 'To be killed by Group B.
James Dashner
#69. The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
Newt Gingrich
#70. There is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us.
Newt Gingrich
#71. It's for the best. Thanks for being my friends.
Goodbye.
James Dashner
#72. Newt had always suspected that people who regularly used the word "community" were using it in a very specific sense that excluded him and everyone he knew.
Terry Pratchett
#73. The sacrament of marriage is based on a man and woman.
Newt Gingrich
#74. A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
Newt Gingrich
#75. Newt Gingrich is one of the brightest people in the Republican Party and he's always been a little unorthodox in his approach to politics, but that's what makes him Newt Gingrich.
Gary Bauer
#76. Newt shook his head, his face a mixture of anger and awe. What you did was half brave and half bloody stupid. Seems like you're pretty good at that.
James Dashner
#77. 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.
Newt Gingrich
#79. I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.
Newt Gingrich
#80. 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.
Newt Gingrich
#81. People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz.
Newt Gingrich
#82. We've had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, and were historically part of the Arab community. And they had a chance to go many places. And for a variety of political reasons we have sustained this war against Israel now since the 1940's, and I think it's tragic,
Newt Gingrich
#83. Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
Newt Gingrich
#84. Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers.
Newt Gingrich
#85. Reagan was president and had Democrats control the House and Senate, and they reformed the tax code. Clinton was president, and he had Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole; they reformed welfare and balanced the budget.
Kevin McCarthy
#86. When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
J. C. Watts
#87. Governor Romney may be running for CEO, I'm running for President
Newt Gingrich
#88. He didn't know which was worse: that Newt seemed to be slipping already or that Minho - the one who should have been able to control himself - was acting like such a slinthead.
James Dashner
#89. 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.
Newt Gingrich
#90. Oh, he was asking to have an open marriage and I refused.
Newt Gingrich
#91. Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security. Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States.
Newt Gingrich
#92. 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.
Newt Gingrich
#93. Did something happen to the sanctity of your church again?"
My eye twitched. "Newt broke it so she could look in my closet." Again.
Kim Harrison
#94. My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves.
Newt Gingrich
#95. This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain't going to happen.
Newt Gingrich
#96. It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.
Newt Gingrich
#97. Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.
Newt Gingrich
#98. 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.
Newt Gingrich
#99. Those of us who believe in free markets and those of us who believe that in fact the whole goal of investment is entrepreneurship and job creation, we find it pretty hard to justify rich people figuring out clever legal ways to loot a company, leaving behind 1,700 families without a job.
Newt Gingrich
#100. If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.
Newt Gingrich
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