Newt Gingrich – Quotes Crazy

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other peoples 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. – Newt Gingrich

You cant trust anybody with power. – Newt Gingrich

One morning, just like 9/11, theres going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea. – Newt Gingrich

Im not a natural leader. Im too intellectual Im too abstract I think too much. – Newt Gingrich

So Id be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. Id let him use a teleprompter. Ill just rely on knowledge. Well do fine. – Newt Gingrich

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we dont 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

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know its bold. Its out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background its hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government. – Newt Gingrich

My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And Im going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results. – Newt Gingrich

Were at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism. – Newt Gingrich

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and thats what freedom is all about. – Newt Gingrich

I dont see how the party that says its the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century. – Newt Gingrich

Imagine a judicial nominee said my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman. Wouldnt they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism. – Newt Gingrich

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way. – Newt Gingrich

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations. – Newt Gingrich

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office. – Newt Gingrich

Only the elites despise earning money. – 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

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. – Newt Gingrich

We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility. – Newt Gingrich

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