As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant. My friends will write histories that glorify me and prove I was more important than I was. And two generations or three from now, some serious sober historian will write a history that sort of implies I was whoever I was.
Newt GingrichThe fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn't want to talk about ideology because they don't want to explain publicly what they're really doing.
Newt GingrichThere's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate.
Newt GingrichIt may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.
Newt Gingrich