Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
Newton Leroy "Newt" Gingrichis an American political consultant, former politician, and historian. He represented Georgia's 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1979 until his resignation in 1999, and served as the 50th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. In 2012, Gingrich was a candidate for the Republican Party presidential nomination...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth17 June 1943
CityHarrisburg, PA
CountryUnited States of America
My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally.
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.
Hillary Clinton has built a huge machine. Donald Trump's asset is people on Facebook and twitter. He can communicate with them eight or 10 times a day with no money. This is a different world.
[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism.
I love the environment, but I'm cheap on the environment.
We have a choice between those who are failing to deliver and those who are unthinkable ... Neither party currently is where the country is.
I'm moderately optimistic. We Americans are an enormous country with more than 300 million people so there's reason for optimism.
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.
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.
If you go to the Lincoln Memorial, the Second Inaugural is probably the most religious speech ever given by an American President. In its 732 words, it references God 14 times and has two verses of the Bible.
1995 government shutdown from GOP underestimating Clinton.
Ongoing battle against liberals nationalizing healthcare.
Established systems are inherently hostile to change.
Show true cost of FICA-double what is shown on paychecks.