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
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My fear is the composition of this commission, which is very, very traditional in its assumptions about government in America and the direction of the president's efforts to maintain quotas and set-asides while claiming he's against them, that that in fact will divert us and make it harder to solve problems,
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I don't want to be critical of the White House, but the key is to put the Iraqi campaign in the context of a regional struggle that includes elements in Syria , Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and then put that in the context of the larger struggle against the irreconcilable wing of Islam,
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If the president is willing to sign a bill that has those reforms, which everybody agrees intellectually are needed in the long run, no one denies that we have to have some pretty basic reforms as people live longer and baby boomers head towards retirement, if he's willing to work with us, I think that we can get something done, but frankly he can kill that by simply indicating he won't support it, ... It's too difficult to carry reforms of that size against the president, so he has a unique burden of having to decide whether or not he can accept that.
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The last seven months have involved six months of diplomatic failure and one month of military success, ... The first days after military victory indicate the pattern of diplomatic failure is beginning once again and threatens to undo the effects of military victory.
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Unless the commission has a dramatically different agenda and a dramatically different approach than the same tired, old, big-government liberalism, it'll be like the commissions we've had for 30 years.
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What the president should recognize is that the American people are tired of thousands of pages of regulations, of audits they don't understand by agents they can't talk with from a bureaucracy they can't control,
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When you wake up in the morning and lose 14 marines, people say, 'What's going on?'
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When I visit Tibet next August I hope he and the Dalai Lama will be there to greet me,
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It functions like an afterthought. We couldn't have designed a greater invitation to unhappiness.
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I think Secretary Powell is an extraordinary figure and I think he's a very effective advocate, but I think he is currently presiding over an institution that's broken,
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I think people exaggerate the role that particular strategy had,
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I think this administration tends to have the right general policies but to be remarkably unwilling to look at how weak their instruments of implementation are. We threw away a year in Iraq because of our mistakes.
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It is not my habit to answer questions posed to me when I am halfway out the door with my back turned ... The speaker and I continue to work as effectively as we have for the last four years.
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It is our historic destiny and fate, there is no other country big enough, complex enough or capable of providing leadership on a worldwide basis.