Top 160 Newt Gingrich Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “As a citizen, I would rather have a President McCain that we fight with 20% of the time, than a President Clinton or a President Obama that we fight with 90% of the time.”

— Newt Gingrich

102. “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

103. “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

104. “Ongoing battle against liberals nationalizing healthcare.”

— Newt Gingrich

105. “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

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

— Newt Gingrich

107. “Give the park police more ammo.”

— Newt Gingrich

108. “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

109. “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

110. “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

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 “Baby Boomers becoming Republicans while Dems become outdated.”

— Newt Gingrich

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

— Newt Gingrich

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

— Newt Gingrich

114. “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

115. “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

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

— Newt Gingrich

117. “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

118. “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

119. “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

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

— Newt Gingrich

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

— Newt Gingrich

122. “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

123. “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

124. “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

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

— Newt Gingrich

126. “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

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

— Newt Gingrich

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

— Newt Gingrich

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

— Newt Gingrich

130. “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

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

— Newt Gingrich

132. “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

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

— Newt Gingrich

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

— Newt Gingrich

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

— Newt Gingrich

136. “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

137. “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

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

— Newt Gingrich

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

— Newt Gingrich

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

— Newt Gingrich

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

— Newt Gingrich

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

— Newt Gingrich

143. “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

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

— Newt Gingrich

145. “When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.”

— Newt Gingrich

146. “To have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think.”

— Newt Gingrich

147. “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

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

— Newt Gingrich

149. “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

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

— Newt Gingrich