A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
Newt Gingrich
I discourage a cult of personality.
Newt Gingrich
I love the environment, but I'm cheap on the environment.
Newt Gingrich
I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
Newt Gingrich
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.
Newt Gingrich
If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
Newt Gingrich
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as "candle making industry threatened".
Newt Gingrich
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
Newt Gingrich
It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.
Newt Gingrich
It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.
Newt Gingrich
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
Newt Gingrich
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
Newt Gingrich
We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.
Newt Gingrich
What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.
Newt Gingrich
You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.
Newt Gingrich
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Type:
Politician
Date of Birth:
1943-06-17
Year of Death:
Nationality:
American |
