Words matter. These are the best Newt Gingrich Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Frankly, I would not have made any difference in Vietnam, but much more is what difference it would have made in me.
The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.
President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of – Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.
America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization.
If you take all the money we’ve spent at NASA since we landed on the moon and you had applied that money for incentives to the private sector, we would today probably have a permanent station on the moon, three or four permanent stations in space, a new generation of lift vehicles.
We have to be as militant defending America as the enemies of America are in trying to destroy America.
I have a sense of being at peace. I understand when you give the sign of peace, and when the priest says, ‘Peace be with you,’ in a way I never did 10 or 15 years ago. I have a deep personal sense of what that means.
I have an enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet.
People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz.
Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they’re cultural?
I can tell you I can work on four or five hours of sleep a night and cat nap all day, and I can go for 8 or 10 days on the road, and it doesn’t seem to affect me.
I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.
The fact is inner-city black districts are not the same as suburban Republican districts. That’s a fact. And people need to go and learn about the whole country.
In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision.
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.
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.
And my point was one I think that you’d agree with, which is there’s no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we’re either color blind or we’re not color blind.
Philosophically, I am very different from normal politicians, and normal consultants found that very hard to deal with.
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.
It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.
We have big ideas. I just think that’s part of how you campaign. You talk to the American people about big things.
I discourage a cult of personality.
I don’t know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.
And by the way I don’t object if people want to attack me, that’s their right. All I’m suggesting that it’s not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking.
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.
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.
Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas.
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.
What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read.
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.
Why not aspire to build a real Jurassic Park?
If Trump keeps learning, he could become a big asset. He will shatter the traditional patterns.
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.
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end… their only answer is to yell racism and hide.
The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful.
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.
You can either be in the Ron Paul tradition and say there’s nothing wrong with heroin and cocaine, or you can be in the tradition that says, ‘These kind of addictive drugs are terrible; they deprive you of full citizenship, and they lead you to a dependency which is antithetical to being an American.’
I helped lead the effort to defeat communism in the Congress.
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.
You can never study Franklin Delano Roosevelt too much.
If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by.
Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.
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.
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.
The genius of guys like Lincoln and Reagan and FDR – the great communicator leaders – is that they’re actually educators, so they understand when they use a phrase that they have to explain it, because, by definition, you won’t understand it or they wouldn’t need to be using it.
Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration?
Whether you’re talking about Chris Christie, or you’re talking about Rick Perry or Scott Walker or John Kasich, there’s more interesting evolution at the state level than there is in Washington.
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.
Whether it’s his beloved game of polo or his magical success in business, Norman Brinker simply does not know how to lose.
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.
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.
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.
Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for ‘religious toleration’ are arrogantly dishonest.
You can’t trust anybody with power.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama.
Now, I know among the politically correct, you’re not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable.
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