Newt Gingrich Quotes

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

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

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

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

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

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

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.

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

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

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

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

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

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.

What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can't help it if liberal books don't sell.

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

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.

I don’t think we have conclusive proof that humans are at the center of [global warming]

I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.

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.

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.

The fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn't want to talk about ideology because they don't want to explain publicly what they're really doing.

I discourage a cult of personality.

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

Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of common sense that is pretty hard to deal with.

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.

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

You can't trust anybody with power.

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

Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood.

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.

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

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

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

I don't care who you are, I care who you want to be.

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

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.

Only the elites despise earning money.

I believe we will elect a new President in 2012.

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.

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.

Drill here, drill now, pay less.

I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American.

We should end the Environmental Protection Agency's war against American oil and gas.

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

I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee.

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?

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

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?