Top 160 Newt Gingrich Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Newt Gingrich

2. “On the battlefield of ideas, winning requires moving toward the sound of the guns.”

— Newt Gingrich

3. “The most powerful force changing our society is the information revolution.”

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4. “And my point was one I think that you’d agree with, which is there’s no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we’re either color blind or we’re not color blind.”

— Newt Gingrich

5. “As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, America gave him the White House based on the same credentials.”

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6. “I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.”

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7. “If you’re not brave, you’re not going to be free.”

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8. “I discourage a cult of personality.”

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9. “Now, I know among the politically correct, you’re not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable.”

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10. “The bigotry question goes both ways. There’s a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media.”

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11. “Imagine a judicial nominee said ‘my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.’ Wouldn’t they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.”

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12. “Go get a job after you take a bath.”

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13. “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.”

— Newt Gingrich

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14. “The most important social welfare program in America is a job.”

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15. “It’s a normal way of doing business.”

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16. “If you go to the Lincoln Memorial, the Second Inaugural is probably the most religious speech ever given by an American President. In its 732 words, it references God 14 times and has two verses of the Bible.”

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17. “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.”

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18. “I think we’ve had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs, and who were historically part of the Arab community.”

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19. “Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.”

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20. “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.”

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21. “Rethink every aspect of bureaucracy.”

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22. “Is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money?”

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23. “I don’t care who you are, I care who you want to be.”

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24. “You want to be a country that creates food stamps? In which case, frankly, Obama is an enormous success the most successful food stamp president in American history. Or do you want to be a country that creates jobs?”

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

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26. “Established systems are inherently hostile to change.”

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27. “I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.”

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28. “To the degree I was too brash, Too self-confident or too pushy, I apologize.”

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29. “Only the elites despise earning money.”

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30. “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.”

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31. “When you have a 12-minute debate over whether lipstick on a pig refers to a demeaning comment about the vice presidential candidate, you know we’re not talking about health reform, we’re not talking about energy policy, we’re not talking about balancing the budget. And you know, it’s fairly stupid.”

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32. “In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.”

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33. “It is perfectly American to be wrong.”

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34. “Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they’re cultural?”

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35. “What’s the job of the candidate in this world? The job of the candidate is to raise the money to hire the consultants to do the focus groups to figure out the 30-second answers to be memorized by the candidate. This is stunningly dangerous.”

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36. “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.”

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37. “I’m not a natural leader. I’m too intellectual; I’m too abstract; I think too much.”

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38. “The mother killing her two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we have to have change. I think people want to change and the only way you get change is to vote Republican.”

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

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40. “You can’t trust anybody with power.”

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41. “We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.”

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42. “I don’t see how the party that says it’s the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.”

— Newt Gingrich

43. “It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can’t read.”

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44. “Gingrich – Primary mission, Advocate of civilization, Definer of civilization, Teacher of the rules of civilization, Leader of the civilizing forces.”

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45. “Military tribunals to lock people up the way Lincoln did.”

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46. “EITC is an invitation to fraud.”

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47. “We’re 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.”

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48. “I’m going to be the nominee. It’s very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I’m going to be the nominee.”

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49. “There’s no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate.”

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50. “Drill here, drill now, pay less.”

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