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
This is a crossroads for the Bush presidency. This is a very exciting period about what is effective government in the 21st century. Either he will be FDR and lead a dramatic change of government, or he will be defender of a failed system. The biggest political challenge for the next two years is to re-centre the government.
This is a crossroads for the Bush presidency, ... This is a very exciting period about what is effective government in the 21st century. Either he will be FDR and lead a dramatic change of government, or he will be defender of a failed system. The biggest political challenge for the next two years is to re-centre the government.
Bowing to the Saudi king is not an energy policy.
If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.
You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.
The problem isn’t too little money in political campaigns, but not enough.
[Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay." He's "given no evidence in his years in Massachusetts of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure.
I love the environment, but I'm cheap on the environment.
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.
Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
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,