Newt Gingrich Quotes

As the largest market on the planet, I'm not particularly worried about countries that want to start a trade war with America. I think they would end up losing.

Governor Romney may be running for CEO, I'm running for President

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.

On the battlefield of ideas, winning requires moving toward the sound of the guns.

Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat.

Heterosexual marriage is the heart of our civilization.

Even if Iraq IS a civil war, people have won civil wars.

That will change over time the entire flow of information and the entire quality of knowledge in the country and it will change the way people will try to play games in the legislative process.

All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care.

President Obama is a president so weak that he makes Jimmy Carter look strong.

Oh, he was asking to have an open marriage and I refused.

We have to frankly break the back of the secular-socialist machine, elect people committed to representing the American people, and then methodically rip the system apart.

It's a normal way of doing business.

What I said was: We want everybody to learn English because we don't want - I didn't use the word 'Spanish.'

I will not rest until I have transformed the landscape of American politics.

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

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

It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003. We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it.

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.

Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers.

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

We have a choice between those who are failing to deliver and those who are unthinkable ... Neither party currently is where the country is.

I think the very concept of an elite commission deciding for the American people who deserves to be heard is profoundly wrong.

There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia.

NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds.

ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.

Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.

Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.

Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth. These people are terrorists.

It is time to know more about would-be terrorists, to profile for terrorists and to actively discriminate based on suspicious terrorist information.

White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw.

Elected on anti-corruption platform in 1978.

Government should take management lesson from private sector.

Rethink every aspect of bureaucracy.

Ongoing battle against liberals nationalizing healthcare.

Focus on prevention; would save $14B with diabetes.

1995 government shutdown from GOP underestimating Clinton.

Polls are biased left; GOP wins on the issues.

The evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading of the atmosphere.

When we have 13,000 Americans living on the moon, they can petition to become a state.

People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz.

We do agree that our country must take action to address climate change.

Bowing to the Saudi king is not an energy policy.

This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment.

We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it.

[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism.

Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security. Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States.

Show true cost of FICA-double what is shown on paychecks.

Convert to IRA-based system.

Input of public judgement for any major tax reform.