How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane.
Newt GingrichYou serve the country, and you help the President. If the President wants you to leave, you know, you are two corridors down.
Newt GingrichIt was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003. We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it.
Newt GingrichI 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 now is welfare.
Newt Gingrich