Quotes By Newt Gingrich

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.

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

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?

I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird.

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.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

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 secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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