Top 160 Newt Gingrich Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “That will change over time the entire flow of information and the entire quality of knowledge in the country and it will change the way people will try to play games in the legislative process.”

— Newt Gingrich

102. “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

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

— Newt Gingrich

104. “Personal responsibility extends to the purchase of health insurance. Citizens should not be able to cheat their neighbors by not buying insurance, particularly when they can afford it, and expect others to pay for their care when they need it.”

— Newt Gingrich

105. “Baby Boomers becoming Republicans while Dems become outdated.”

— Newt Gingrich

106. “It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003. We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it.”

— Newt Gingrich

107. “I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt – pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of your lifetime – in fact, the only major entitlement reform to now is welfare.”

— Newt Gingrich

108. “Ongoing battle against liberals nationalizing healthcare.”

— Newt Gingrich

109. “I would just say that if Governor Romney would like to give back all the money he’s earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years at Bain that I would be glad to then listen to him. I’ll bet you $10, not $10,000, that he won’t take the offer.”

— Newt Gingrich

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

— Newt Gingrich

111. “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.”

— Newt Gingrich

112. “My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I’m going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results.”

— Newt Gingrich

113. “President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of – Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.”

— Newt Gingrich

114. “There’s a large part of me that’s four years old. I wake up in the morning and I know that somewhere there’s a cookie. I don’t know where it is but I know it’s mine and I have to go find it. That’s how I live my life. My life is amazingly filled with fun.”

— Newt Gingrich

115. “Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.”

— Newt Gingrich

116. “I will not rest until I have transformed the landscape of American politics.”

— Newt Gingrich

117. “Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.”

— Newt Gingrich

118. “Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat.”

— Newt Gingrich

119. “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.”

— Newt Gingrich

120. “My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally.”

— Newt Gingrich

121. “I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird.”

— Newt Gingrich

122. “GOP represents people, but Dems communicate better.”

— Newt Gingrich

123. “What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can’t help it if liberal books don’t sell.”

— Newt Gingrich

124. “The Congress is pretty powerful if it wants to be.”

— Newt Gingrich

125. “Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There’s no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center.”

— Newt Gingrich

126. “People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz.”

— Newt Gingrich

127. “We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair.”

— Newt Gingrich

128. “I want to make sure every House Republican is protected from some kind of dishonest Democratic ad. So let me say on the record, any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood.”

— Newt Gingrich

129. “Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers.”

— Newt Gingrich

130. “We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it.”

— Newt Gingrich

131. “President Obama is a president so weak that he makes Jimmy Carter look strong.”

— Newt Gingrich

132. “Press plays “gotcha”; limit press briefings.”

— Newt Gingrich

133. “I have six times as many Twitter followers as all the other candidates combined, but it didn’t count because if it counted I’d still be a candidate; since I can’t be a candidate that can’t count.”

— Newt Gingrich

134. “I don’t understand why they call it public broadcasting. As far as I am concerned, there’s nothing public about it; it’s an elitist enterprise. ‘Rush Limbaugh’ is public broadcasting.”

— Newt Gingrich

135. “Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration?”

— Newt Gingrich

136. “Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it’s bold. It’s out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it’s hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.”

— Newt Gingrich

137. “Opposing taxes is a key conservative value.”

— Newt Gingrich

138. “Would you pick me? I am so much my own agent, it would be – its inconceivable.”

— Newt Gingrich

139. “The America in which we grew up is vastly different from the America the secular-socialist Left want to create. And that’s why saving America is the fundamental challenge of our time. The secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.”

— Newt Gingrich

140. “If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?”

— Newt Gingrich

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

— Newt Gingrich

142. “In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.”

— Newt Gingrich

143. “I think the very concept of an elite commission deciding for the American people who deserves to be heard is profoundly wrong.”

— Newt Gingrich

144. “Maybe Governor Romney in the spirit of openness should tell us how much money he’s made off of how many households that have been foreclosed by his investments.”

— Newt Gingrich

145. “Government should take management lesson from private sector.”

— Newt Gingrich

146. “President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.”

— Newt Gingrich

147. “You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.”

— Newt Gingrich

148. “It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington’s cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.”

— Newt Gingrich

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

— Newt Gingrich

150. “Input of public judgement for any major tax reform.”

— Newt Gingrich