This is a candidate who never even thought about policy. What Trump represents is pure willpower and the notion of breaking through the system. – Newt Gingrich
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. – Newt Gingrich
This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain’t going to happen. – Newt Gingrich
What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read. – 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. – Newt Gingrich
President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of – Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown. – Newt Gingrich
I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job. – Newt Gingrich
Trump would represent turmoil – unless he changed, unless he said, ‘Now that I got to be president, I’m gonna be normal.’ – Newt Gingrich
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. – Newt Gingrich
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. – Newt Gingrich
If the Soviet empire still existed, I’d be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now. – Newt Gingrich
Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington. – Newt Gingrich
Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal. – Newt Gingrich
While abolishing judgeships and lower federal courts is a blunt tool and one whose use is warranted only in the most extreme of circumstances… it is one of many possibilities to check and balance the judiciary. – Newt Gingrich
The values of the Left cripple human beings, weaken cities, make it difficult for us to in fact survive as a country. – Newt Gingrich
If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he’s black, we would all go crazy. – Newt Gingrich
We don’t we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point? – Newt Gingrich
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. – Newt Gingrich
Frankly, I would not have made any difference in Vietnam, but much more is what difference it would have made in me. – Newt Gingrich
Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for ‘religious toleration’ are arrogantly dishonest. – Newt Gingrich
The Central Park Zoo is a little gem in the middle of the city. Its penguin exhibit is terrific, and the seals are a permanent center of attraction for children. – Newt Gingrich
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. – Newt Gingrich
I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we’ve had about 50 years’ experience at failing with foreign aid. – Newt Gingrich
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. – Newt Gingrich
It’s been one of the most painful things I’ve ever been through in my whole life: trying to understand the degree to which behaviors that I thought were totally appropriate were destructive. – Newt Gingrich
You can either be in the Ron Paul tradition and say there’s nothing wrong with heroin and cocaine, or you can be in the tradition that says, ‘These kind of addictive drugs are terrible; they deprive you of full citizenship, and they lead you to a dependency which is antithetical to being an American.’ – Newt Gingrich
I don’t know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor. – Newt Gingrich