Gingrich Quotes

If you take all the money we've spent at NASA since we landed on the moon and you had applied that money for incentives to the private sector, we would today probably have a permanent station on the moon, three or four permanent stations in space, a new generation of lift vehicles. ~ 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 government shut down 12 times under Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill. It was only shut down twice while I was speaker. ~ Newt Gingrich

In a social media age, it seems that everyone lives in their own reality and that when you give consideration to Newt Gingrich, he exists in an alternate reality, at some level, where the things he says are so diametrically opposed to the record. ~ Steve Schmidt

Those of us who believe in free markets and those of us who believe that in fact the whole goal of investment is entrepreneurship and job creation, we find it pretty hard to justify rich people figuring out clever legal ways to loot a company, leaving behind 1,700 families without a job. ~ Newt Gingrich

The most important social welfare program in America is a job. ~ Newt Gingrich

Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere and he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda. ~ Jim Talent

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel. ~ James McBride

Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of. ~ Bill Kristol

I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt - pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of your lifetime - in fact, the only major entitlement reform to now is welfare. ~ Newt Gingrich

When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people. ~ J. C. Watts

The Bush administration has now provided three case studies in arrogance, isolation and destructiveness: Michael Brown during Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Jerry Bremer in Baghdad and Secretary Paulson at Treasury. It is a tragic and very expensive legacy. No conservative and no Republican should doubt how much it has hurt our cause and our party. ~ Newt Gingrich

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

I read 'Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them,' and I found frightening pieces that related to ... my own life. ~ Newt Gingrich

I think what you'll find is overall, overwhelmingly, evangelicals would prefer me to Barack Obama. ~ Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility. ~ John Podhoretz

What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can't help it if liberal books don't sell. ~ Newt Gingrich

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

I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there's a package there that's very, very good, ~ Newt Gingrich

He's not a bold decision maker like Newt Gingrich is. Every time I talk to him, he says 'well let me think about it.' ~ Sheldon Adelson

We need a dramatically expanded use of statecraft. ~ Newt Gingrich

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

I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American. ~ Newt Gingrich

So when people tell you, oh, you can't have the Ten Commandments on public property, they're just wrong. It's historically false. It's not true. Now, you can decide to invent a new America in which you shouldn't say "one nation under God" as part of the pledge because, after all, you will offend three atheists. But that's not the America you inherited. That's a different country. And I think it's a weaker country and I think it's a country that has no roots in terms of where its rights come from. ~ 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'm against ObamaCare, which is imposing radical change, and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change ... I don't think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering ... I don't think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate. ~ Newt Gingrich

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

To have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think. ~ Newt Gingrich

Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for 'religious toleration' are arrogantly dishonest. ~ Newt Gingrich

The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner. ~ Arnold Gingrich

The terrorism danger to the United States is even worse than September 11th, when 19 hijackers murdered almost 3,000 Americans. ~ 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

Newt Gingrich would cream Barack Obama in a debate. ~ Monica Crowley

Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools. ~ Newt Gingrich

My fine friends who are perfectionists, each in their own world where they are petty dictators, could write a perfect bill. Those of us who have grown up and matured ... understand that we have to work together on the big issues. ~ Newt Gingrich

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

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

Under our [constitutional system] - either we're going to have to rethink our Constitution, or we're going to have to rethink our process of decision-making. ~ Newt Gingrich

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. ~ Newt Gingrich

I discourage a cult of personality. ~ Newt Gingrich

If I were fashioning my own killer argument against the digital revolution, I'd begin with the observation that both Newt Gingrich and Timothy Leary are crazy about it. ~ Jonathan Franzen

Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and terrorists who are dangerous already and who would be brutal in power if given the chance. ~ Newt Gingrich

When, in 2012, Newt Gingrich was asked about how his religious beliefs would affect his conduct should he become president, the Republican nominee hopeful answered, "One of the reasons I am running is there has been an increasingly aggressive war against religion and in particular against Christianity" in the United States. For a potential president to state that he sees himself as a wartime candidate who will defend his party against other citizens is astonishing. There is not even a pretense here of "united states". ~ Candida R. Moss

If you go to the Lincoln Memorial, the Second Inaugural is probably the most religious speech ever given by an American President. In its 732 words, it references God 14 times and has two verses of the Bible. ~ Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich would be a much better president than Barack Obama. ~ Rick Santorum

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 talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week. ~ Newt Gingrich

We need to quit subsidizing the costs for illegal immigrants' residency in America immediately. How long will we allow them to siphon millions upon millions from honest taxpaying Americans by supporting their health care, welfare, education and criminal expenses? ~ Newt Gingrich

Gingrich is the "foremost intellectual" in the Republican party like Gene Simmons is the foremost intellectual in "Kiss". ~ Bill Maher

In a new interview, Newt Gingrich says he cheated on two of his wives because he was too consumed with love for his country. Yeah, apparently he misunderstood the phrase, 'Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.' ~ Conan O'Brien

Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party. ~ George Packer

I think we've had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs, and who were historically part of the Arab community. ~ Newt Gingrich

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

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. ~ Newt Gingrich

So when you hear about Hillary's [Clinton] dishonesty, or the emails, or taking millions from the Saudis and other Middle Eastern dictatorships - remember, this is not about politics. ~ Newt Gingrich

There is no question that at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about my country, that I worked far too hard and that things happened in my life that were not appropriate. ~ Newt Gingrich

Do you men still know how to fight?" he (GW) roared.
A primal cry erupted around him.
"Then fall in and show those redcoats over there" - he pointed back to the advancing British - "how Americans can stand and fight for their freedom! ~ Newt Gingrich

The Congress is pretty powerful if it wants to be. ~ Newt Gingrich

We should end the Environmental Protection Agency's war against American oil and gas. ~ Newt Gingrich

The America in which we grew up is vastly different from the America the secular-socialist Left want to create. And that's why saving America is the fundamental challenge of our time. The secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did. ~ Newt Gingrich

There I was on the front page of the 'London Times' as speaker of the House with an animal on top of my head. I liked it, but it was not what my staff thought was appropriately dignified. ~ Newt Gingrich

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

Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a process of enforced boredom and age segregation that has produced one of the most destructive social arrangements in human history: consigning 13-year-old males to learning from 15-year-old males. ~ Newt Gingrich

At a time when the current and two former US presidents have admittedly indulged, as have politicians of all stripes from Al Gore to Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin and over 50% of the adult US population, the credibility tipping point of the War on Drugs propaganda has long been passed. All that appears to be missing is the political courage to admit failure and move on to more realistic and efficient policies. What will it take for decision makers to display the wisdom and garner the courage to end the disastrous War on Drugs and responsibly take charge of drug production and trade instead of leaving it in the hands of extremely dangerous and powerful international criminal organizations? ~ Jeffrey Dhywood

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run. ~ Howard Dean

Now, tell me how you're going to teach the history of Jefferson, and cut out all those quotes and cut out all these facts, and cut out the key line of the Declaration of Independence: We are endowed by our Creator. I mean you have to have a conscious deliberate censorship of America, which is what the left and the courts and the classrooms has had for 40 years. ~ Newt Gingrich

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations. ~ Newt Gingrich

The Republican brand has been so badly damaged that if Republicans try to run an anti-Obama, anti-Rev. Wright or, if Sen. Clinton wins, anti-Clinton campaign, they are simply going to fail. This model has already been tested with disastrous results. ~ Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich had a horrible week in the Iowa caucuses. Only 13 percent of his ex-wives voted for him. ~ David Letterman

By definition, the person who learns enough to become the nominee is almost certainly the best person for the general election. ~ Newt Gingrich

As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, America gave him the White House based on the same credentials. ~ Newt Gingrich

America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization. ~ Newt Gingrich

Gingrich - Primary mission, Advocate of civilization, Definer of civilization, Teacher of the rules of civilization, Leader of the civilizing forces. ~ Newt Gingrich

Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story ~ Candace Gingrich-Jones

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

Osama bin Laden was living in that compound with three wives. It's like he was Newt Gingrich. ~ David Letterman

Unlike Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, I never voted to provide taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood. ~ Ron Paul

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

To the degree I was too brash, Too self-confident or too pushy, I apologize. ~ Newt Gingrich

I clearly have done things that were wrong. I've clearly had to seek God's forgiveness. ~ Newt Gingrich

Beating Newt Gingrich in a popularity contest is like beating Stephen Hawking in 'Dancing with the Stars.' ~ Bill Maher

I'm a controversial guy. ~ Newt Gingrich

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

Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas. ~ Newt Gingrich

I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally and captivate the conservative movement. ~ Rick Perry

Christmas represents love and mercy. It was ushered in by the star of hope and remains forever consecrated by the sacrifice of the cross. Christmas holds its place in the hearts of men because they know that love is the greatest thing in the world. Christmas is celebrated in the true spirit only by those who make some sacrifice for the benefit of their fellow men. ~ Newt Gingrich

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

About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box. ~ Arnold Gingrich

I haven't seen any poet in this country behave nearly as rudely as Newt Gingrich or Bill O'Reilly. I'm not asking these people to approve of everyone's manners. I don't feel obliged to defend the manners of every poet who submits a poem to my web site. That's not my job. My job is to provide them with an opportunity to speak from the heart. If there's not much in the heart and if the mouth is running wild, that's not my problem. ~ Sam Hamill

It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't read. ~ Newt Gingrich

The ACLU is an organization with a long and distinguished history of fighting to protect freedom of speech. On the other hand, in recent years, it has carried its mandate to ever more eccentric and often highly destructive lengths. While is may have been perfectly honorable for Dukakis to belong to the ACLU, it was equally legitimate for Bush to attack him for it. And with what enormous relish he did the job! ~ Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich is an incredible leader. He is a leader of our time, and he's going to lead us into the future. And we're going to accomplish the things that we've all dreamed of. ~ Tom DeLay

1995 government shutdown from GOP underestimating Clinton. ~ Newt Gingrich

I believe most evangelicals know that defeating Obama is at heart of our country's future. ~ Newt Gingrich

We have big ideas. I just think that's part of how you campaign. You talk to the American people about big things. ~ Newt Gingrich

Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance. ~ Arnold Gingrich

For the system of government you fashioned including the very principles on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly, if inadvertently, oppressive and dangerous to our welfare. It must be radically changed and a new system of government invented, a democracy for the 21st century. For this wisdom, above all, I thank Mr. Jefferson who helped create the system that served us so well for so long, and that now must, in its turn, die and be replaced. ~ Newt Gingrich

When you come to America, you get to become an American, and Trump, who has grandparents who came to the U.S., should understand this as much as anybody. ~ Newt Gingrich

ACLU has become eccentric and destructive. ~ Newt Gingrich

People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live. ~ Newt Gingrich