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 GingrichMy strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally.
Newt GingrichIf the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
Newt GingrichOur generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.
Newt Gingrich