Newt Gingrich Quotes
What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.
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.
It`s going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.
I discourage a cult of personality.
If the Soviet empire still existed, I`d be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
We`re all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.
Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
I`m not a natural leader. I`m too intellectual; I`m too abstract; I think too much.
You can`t trust anybody with power.
You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that`s what freedom is all about.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
I love the environment, but I`m cheap on the environment.
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
"We had oral sex. He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, 'I never slept with her.'" - Anne Manning (who was also married at the time.)
"She isn't young enough or pretty enough to be the President's wife." - Newt, on his first wife.
