Newt Gingrich famous quotes

It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Science #Mars #Turns

The sacrament of marriage is based on a man and woman.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Men #Men And Women

Reagan believed the power of truth restated the world and re framed the world. I am a Reaganite. I'm proud to be a Reaganite. I will tell the truth, even if it's at the risk of causing some confusion sometimes with the timid.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Confusion #Risk #Proud

When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Court #Institutions #Judicial

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

#Perseverance #Stay Strong #Business

The Congress is pretty powerful if it wants to be.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Powerful #Want #Congress

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

#Party #Immigration #Quarters

Being Americans, we prosecute wars to win them, not to have reasonable response, not to have appropriate levels of retaliation. Our theory is you start bombing our cities; we're going to defeat you and make it impossible.
-- Newt Gingrich

#War #Winning #Cities

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Leadership #Thinking #Intellectual

Is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money?
-- Newt Gingrich

#People #Rich #Ability

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Ideas #Political #Would Be

By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Moon #Politics #Firsts

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

#Running #Country #Thinking

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.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Children #Rich #Broadcasting

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.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Party #Boys #Thinking

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.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Proud #Politician #Welfare

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

#Jobs #Careers #Usa

Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood,
-- Newt Gingrich

#Sunday #Said #Ads

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
-- Newt Gingrich

#War #Political #Politics

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

#Funny #Volleyball #Beach

It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid...These schools should get rid of unionized janitors, have one master janitor, pay local students to take care of the school.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Children #Crazy #Stupid

Now you have to ask a question - is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money? Or is that in fact somehow a little bit of a flawed system? And so I do draw distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods and then leaving a factory that should be there.
-- Newt Gingrich

#People #Broken #Leaving

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.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Real #Ambition #Want

What I said was: We want everybody to learn English because we don't want - I didn't use the word 'Spanish.'
-- Newt Gingrich

#Use #Want #Said

I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [his grandchildren are] my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Country #Atheist #Crazy

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.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Challenges #President #Momentum

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

#Jobs #America #Important

I believe we will elect a new President in 2012.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Believe #President #I Believe

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

#Believe #Struggle #America

The most powerful force changing our society is the information revolution.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Powerful #Our Society #Information

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

#Jobs #House #President

I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt - pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of your lifetime - in fact, the only major entitlement reform to now is welfare.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Years #Debt #Four

Well, I think that there's a clear record, I worked with Ronald Reagan in the early '80s and his recovery program translated into today's population of about 25 million new jobs in a seven-year period. As Speaker of the House, I worked with President Clinton and he followed with a very similar plan. And we ended up with about 11 million new jobs in a four-year period.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Jobs #Recovery #Thinking

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.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Leadership #Money #Believe

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.
-- Newt Gingrich

#Monday #Children #Giving