Newt Gingrich Quotes

Focus on prevention; would save $14B with diabetes.

So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln/Douglas style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

I love the environment, but I'm cheap on the environment.

Now you have to ask a question - is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money? Or is that in fact somehow a little bit of a flawed system? And so I do draw distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods and then leaving a factory that should be there.

I think Jefferson and George Washington would strongly discourage you from growing marijuana, and their tactics to stop you would be more violent than they would be today.

I think Donald Trump needs to set a direction that allows people who are deeply opposed to Obamacare to realize it's gradually going to be reformed and rethought.

I discourage a cult of personality.

Convert to IRA-based system.

Leadership matters and solving things before a crisis is important.

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

The idea that the United States can't guard its own border is silly. It's a sign that were not serious about this...people who legally shouldn't be here. When the state is forced to take care of them - for example, if they have an illegal alien in their prison - the federal government should pay for it. If Washington has to pay for it, Washington's going to more rapidly understand why we have to take some necessary steps.

Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood.

our rights come from our Creator and it is impossible to define America if you do not talk in public about where your rights come from.

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.

[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism.

Hillary Clinton is lying again and again.

We have got to get beyond this political bologna. I'm not allowed to say anything positive about Hillary Clinton because then I'm not a loyal Republican, and she's not allowed to say anything positive about me because then she's not a loyal Democrat. What a stupid way to run a country.

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

I suspect that Donald Trump is going to be very tough with those countries that don't spend at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. He will ask them why should we allow a free-ride policy.

Donald Trump has to be Donald Trump. And the country will organize itself around who he is.

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

I read Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them and I found frightening pieces that related to…my own life.

If you want to see why President Obama is worried this November, watch The Hope and the Change.

As the largest market on the planet, I'm not particularly worried about countries that want to start a trade war with America. I think they would end up losing.

We have to rethink, how do we get a complete 360-degree understanding of the patient?

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash' unless it's illegal.

The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.

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

It is false to suggest that Thomas Jefferson or any other Founding Father believed in a legal barrier to God in the public square.

The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple innocent people in the name of letting hooligans loose.

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

The secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.

I'm willing to go through a full body scan or anything else you need to. What I am offended by is the absolute unwillingness of Obama's administration. Callista and I did a movie called "America at Risk: The War with No Name," where we outlined - who are the people who've been terrorists in the last three or four years? They're all males. They're all young. They're all fairly identifiable in other ways. So we're going to a point - we're going to have a full body scan of an 83-year-old nun from Des Moines because we don't want to be honest about who our enemies are?

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works.

The American challenge in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution.

If we'd had government on [today's] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that railroads could not travel faster than a horse because it would be an unfair competitive advantage.

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.

Rethink every aspect of bureaucracy.

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.

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.

It's a normal way of doing business.

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

Donald Trump has a compulsion to counterattack and is very pugnacious.

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

Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation's global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures.

Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.

I believe we will elect a new President in 2012.