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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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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I have people who come to this floor, who claim they represent the workers, who say they are for an international bank institution that is totally secret, that is run by a bureaucrat whose major policy is to raise taxes on workers in the Third World to pay off New York banks, ... Now that doesn't sound like populism to me.
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I want to get this bill signed, so for the first time in 16 years, the American people have a tax cut, but we're not going to give it up flippantly, we're going to work to keep it. I think the president has to look at what does he want. He's not going to get everything he wants; this is not a one-way street.
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I urge my colleagues to pick leaders who can both reconcile and discipline, who can work together and communicate effectively.
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I pledge right here working with the president that we will work in a bipartisan basis ... to enact in 1999 the right savings and the right steps to reform the system for the baby boomers and their children,
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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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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.