Top 160 Newt Gingrich Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “1995 government shutdown from GOP underestimating Clinton.”

— Newt Gingrich

52. “Heterosexual marriage is the heart of our civilization.”

— Newt Gingrich

53. “I love the environment, but I’m cheap on the environment.”

— Newt Gingrich

54. “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.”

— Newt Gingrich

55. “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.”

— Newt Gingrich

56. “An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.”

— Newt Gingrich

57. “You can’t flip-flop and be commander-in-chief.”

— Newt Gingrich

58. “I have enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I’m doing it. I am now a famous person. I represent real power.”

— Newt Gingrich

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

— Newt Gingrich

60. “We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.”

— Newt Gingrich

61. “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.”

— Newt Gingrich

62. “Reagan believed the power of truth restated the world and re framed the world. I am a Reaganite. I’m proud to be a Reaganite. I will tell the truth, even if it’s at the risk of causing some confusion sometimes with the timid.”

— Newt Gingrich

63. “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

64. “We do agree that our country must take action to address climate change.”

— Newt Gingrich

65. “Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.”

— Newt Gingrich

66. “If you’ve been here 15 years and you’ve got three kids and grandkids and you’ve been paying taxes and obeying the law, you belong to a local church, I don’t think we’re going to separate you from your family, uproot you forcefully and kick you out.”

— Newt Gingrich

67. “What I said was: We want everybody to learn English because we don’t want – I didn’t use the word ‘Spanish.’”

— Newt Gingrich

68. “Convert to IRA-based system.”

— Newt Gingrich

69. “Now, we don’t get rid of it in round one because we don’t think that that’s politically smart, and we don’t think that’s the right way to go through a transition. But we believe it’s going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it – voluntarily.”

— Newt Gingrich

70. “Liberals exploit weakness; conservatives offer strength.”

— Newt Gingrich

71. “Even if Iraq IS a civil war, people have won civil wars.”

— Newt Gingrich

72. “The sacrament of marriage is based on a man and woman.”

— Newt Gingrich

73. “The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.”

— Newt Gingrich

74. “We should end the Environmental Protection Agency’s war against American oil and gas.”

— Newt Gingrich

75. “Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.”

— Newt Gingrich

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

— Newt Gingrich

77. “We don’t we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?”

— Newt Gingrich

78. “I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.”

— Newt Gingrich

79. “I’m opposed to giving people money for doing nothing.”

— Newt Gingrich

80. “ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.”

— Newt Gingrich

81. “Show true cost of FICA-double what is shown on paychecks.”

— Newt Gingrich

82. “Being Americans, we prosecute wars to win them, not to have reasonable response, not to have appropriate levels of retaliation. Our theory is you start bombing our cities; we’re going to defeat you and make it impossible.”

— Newt Gingrich

83. “The fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn’t want to talk about ideology because they don’t want to explain publicly what they’re really doing.”

— Newt Gingrich

84. “The problem isn’t too little money in political campaigns, but not enough.”

— Newt Gingrich

85. “Governor Romney may be running for CEO, I’m running for President.”

— Newt Gingrich

86. “White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw.”

— Newt Gingrich

87. “Bowing to the Saudi king is not an energy policy.”

— Newt Gingrich

88. “The evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading of the atmosphere.”

— Newt Gingrich

89. “It doesn’t matter what I do. People need to hear what I have to say. There’s no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn’t matter what I live.”

— Newt Gingrich

90. “I do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who have been here a quarter century, who have children and grandchildren, who are members of the community, who may have done something 25 years ago, separate them from their families, and expel them.”

— Newt Gingrich

91. “Polls are biased left; GOP wins on the issues.”

— Newt Gingrich

92. “I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama.”

— Newt Gingrich

93. “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

94. “All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care.”

— Newt Gingrich

95. “Public Broadcasting is a sandbox for the rich. The NEA and the HEH are simply enclaves of the left using your money to propagandize your children against your values.”

— Newt Gingrich

96. “Criminals thrive on society’s understanding.”

— Newt Gingrich

97. “Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them.”

— Newt Gingrich

98. “Those of us who believe in free markets and those of us who believe that in fact the whole goal of investment is entrepreneurship and job creation, we find it pretty hard to justify rich people figuring out clever legal ways to loot a company, leaving behind 1,700 families without a job.”

— Newt Gingrich

99. “The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and does not believe in data that it has not internally generated.”

— Newt Gingrich

100. “1994 GOP victory destroyed bipartisanship.”

— Newt Gingrich