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 GingrichThe idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
Newt GingrichAmerica is not a country that wanders around trusting people with power. This is a country that wants accountability.
Newt Gingrich