Quotes By Newt Gingrich

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.

I believe we will elect a new President in 2012.

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

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.

You can't trust anybody with power.

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

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

We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

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

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.

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

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?

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

So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.

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.

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.