Quotes By Newt Gingrich

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Only the elites despise earning money.

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

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.

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.

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.

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

You can't trust anybody with power.

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

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

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.

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

I discourage a cult of personality.

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

Now, I know among the politically correct, you're not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable.

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

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.

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

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?

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