Quotes by Newt Gingrich

About Newt Gingrich:

Newton Leroy is an American politician, historian, author and political consultant. He represented Georgia's 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1979 until his resignation in 1999, and served as the 58th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich was a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination.
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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

Newt Gingrich

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

Newt Gingrich

Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.

Newt Gingrich

I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.

Newt Gingrich

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

Newt Gingrich

You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

Newt Gingrich

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

Newt Gingrich

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

Newt Gingrich

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 t...

Newt Gingrich

I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama.

Newt Gingrich

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.

Newt Gingrich

I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.

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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.

Newt Gingrich

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

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.

Newt Gingrich

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

Newt Gingrich

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.

Newt Gingrich

You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.

Newt Gingrich

Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.

Newt Gingrich

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

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Author Bio

  • NameNewt Gingrich
  • DescriptionProfessor, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
  • BornJune 17, 1943
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Novelist; Writer