Newt Gingrich quotes

Newt Gingrich is an American politician, historian, and author who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. A key figure in conservative politics, he played a central role in the "Contract with America" and the Republican Revolution of the 1990s. He remains an influential voice in American political discourse and commentary. Here are 118 of his quotes:

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

Newt Gingrich

I think that 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, and loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the camp fire, but are lousy in politics.

Newt Gingrich

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

Newt Gingrich

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

Newt Gingrich

People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz. I see evil around me every day.

Newt Gingrich

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.

Newt Gingrich

By the end of my second term we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American.

Newt Gingrich

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.

Newt Gingrich

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and 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

I'm the guy in the eighth grade who did not go across the floor and ask the girl to dance for two reasons. One is, she might say no and I'd be embarrassed; two, she might say yes and I'd have to dance...

Newt Gingrich

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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I'm opposed to giving people money for doing nothing.

Newt Gingrich

He's bright as hell, but I disagree with him.

Newt Gingrich

I see myself as representing the conservative wing of the postindustrial society.

Newt Gingrich

We have to frankly break the back of the secular-socialist machine, elect people committed to representing the American people, and then methodically rip the system apart.

Newt Gingrich

The goal that the Obama team has is to fundamentally replace the historic America of self-reliance, independence, the work ethic, the people who go out and achieve because they spend their lifetime doing the right things. And they want to replace it with a politician-dominated redistributionist bureaucracy. Which in the essence would mean the end of America as it has been for the last 400 years.

Newt Gingrich

I have two grandchildren: Maggie is 11; Robert is 9. I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they're my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.

Newt Gingrich

Give the park police more ammo.

Newt Gingrich

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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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.

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

Newt Gingrich

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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