I’ve been very clear publicly I’m not a perfect human being, and I’ve made mistakes in my life, and I’ve had to apologize to God and to seek reconciliation. – Newt Gingrich
We need a visionary leader with very big and bold ideas. This is a very big, very bold country. – 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. – Newt Gingrich
Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it. – Newt Gingrich
Whether it’s his beloved game of polo or his magical success in business, Norman Brinker simply does not know how to lose. – Newt Gingrich
NASA should not be developing its own proprietary version of capabilities it could purchase commercially at much lower cost, especially when we know the agency’s bureaucratic tendencies will be to view the commercial versions as competitors to kill. – Newt Gingrich
If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians? – Newt Gingrich
If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else’s decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain. – Newt Gingrich
Think about it. If it’s taking pictures, it’s not a cellphone. If it has a McDonald’s app to tell you where McDonald’s is based on your GPS location, that’s not a cellphone. If you can get Wikipedia or go to Google, that’s not a cellphone. – Newt Gingrich
In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision. – Newt Gingrich
America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization. – Newt Gingrich
The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country. – Newt Gingrich
Is the purpose of free elections to allow the most clever and vicious person to aggregate power, or is the purpose of free elections to enable the American people to have a serious conversation about their country’s future and try to find both a policy and a personality that they think will carry to them that better future? – Newt Gingrich
You’ve got the North Koreans building weapons; you got the Iranians building weapons. You’ve got – the Pakistanis already have at least 100 nuclear weapons. Do you think there’s any serious effort in this country to come to grips with that? – Newt Gingrich
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. – Newt Gingrich
What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots. – Newt Gingrich
Trump has got to, I think, move to a new level. This is no longer the primaries. He’s no longer an interesting contender. He is now the potential leader of the United States and he’s got to move his game up to the level of being a potential leader. – Newt Gingrich
You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end… their only answer is to yell racism and hide. – Newt Gingrich
I got active in this business of politics and self-government in 1958 when my father, who was serving in the U.S. Army, took us to the battlefield of Verdun. – Newt Gingrich
If, as the popular saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the people who run our public schools fit that description. – Newt Gingrich
My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves. – Newt Gingrich
Islamic extremism may well be the greatest threat to Western values and Western security in the world. – Newt Gingrich
If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by. – Newt Gingrich
Cincinnati has one of the most diverse animal collections in the world, with more than 500 species represented. They also have a really good insect exhibit. – Newt Gingrich
I can tell you I can work on four or five hours of sleep a night and cat nap all day, and I can go for 8 or 10 days on the road, and it doesn’t seem to affect me. – Newt Gingrich