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
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.
We thank the president for wishing to continue the dialogue on race last weekend, but frankly, there has been much talk on this issue and very little action of the sort which will dramatically change people's lives,
puts into question all of the Homeland Security and Northern Command planning for the last four years.
Imagine a party that grew over the next four years as much as we've grown over the last four.
All they have left is to smear the speaker because they can't solve Medicare, they can't solve welfare and they can't balance the budget. This is the last pathetic thing they've got,
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.
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.
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,
When you wake up in the morning and lose 14 marines, people say, 'What's going on?'
When I visit Tibet next August I hope he and the Dalai Lama will be there to greet me,
It functions like an afterthought. We couldn't have designed a greater invitation to unhappiness.
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,
I think people exaggerate the role that particular strategy had,
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.