Gingrich - primary mission Advocate of civilization Definer of civilization Teacher of the Rules of Civilization... Leader (Possibly) of the civilizing forces...

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.

A pencil is a wand and a weapon. Be careful. Protect yourself. It can be glorious.

I think the British government's cutting back of arts funding is such a crime. I bet it will happen in Denmark soon, too.

If you can get by with quotes from The Godfather and nothing you say matters, that's pretty bleak, don't you think? Don't we want what we say to matter?

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.

There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.

The key question in order to change you is not 'What would Jesus do?' but "What has Jesus done for you?"