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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Medicaid is projected to spend $340 billion in 2006 in combined federal and state dollars. I encourage everyone to think of this program not as a problem, but as an opportunity for real progress, ... A 21st Century Responsible Citizen Medicaid Act would empower those who depend on Medicaid and align incentives so that patients receive markedly better care at lower cost in an environment where physicians, hospitals, pharmacists and nursing homes compete for patients based on the value of their services.
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We're now looking ahead to what we're going to do in the next two years, next three years, but I think it's in the same model of trying to continue to move towards a reformed federal government.
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The current system failed and we have to dramatically improve it, dramatically change it and we'd better do it now before another hurricane or before a terrorist attack... Is Bush going to face up to the absolute disaster of the state, city and federal government failing to perform? ...The country knows (the system) failed.
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The city of New Orleans failed. The state of Louisiana failed. The federal government failed. It is astonishing to me that five months after the obvious failure of all three layers of government that there has been no serious systemic change.
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The heart of the tape is a convicted felon saying he is going to roll over one more time and a federal employee saying to her husband, 'I'm being squeezed by the White House.' That's the heart of these tapes,
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This will be the first time in 70 years that Republicans kept control of the House for a third term, ... We will gain seats this evening as the evening goes on.
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We will do everything we can to find the money, not just for procurement but for training, for personnel and for the necessary power projection which is at the heart of America's ability to lead the world,
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We think you can get a balanced budget and you can get a tax cut, ... We think both can be done this year, and we're trying to find a way to make sure that we have every opportunity to both balance the budget with smaller government, with reforms, and to have tax cuts for the American people.
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We're not in a values fight now but over whether the system is working. The issue is delivery.
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This was such a stunning collapse of modern government that people understand that it's really not about personality,
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We find ourselves where with a Democratic president and a Republican congress and we have an absolute moral obligation to make this system work.
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We give him the benefit of the doubt because of his history as a credible guy. But to say there would be no hard feelings if he dumped a lot of questions and few answers on us would be an understatement.
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We're going to try to find everything we can to get the bill signed, and I have every reason to believe they'll be signed,
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between those who would keep taxes higher on taxpayers to transfer the money to welfare recipients, and those of us who believe that after 16 years, it is actually time to have a bill dedicated to helping taxpayers and to giving mothers and fathers more take-home pay and resources to take care of their children.