Newt Gingrich Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

  Newt Gingrich

  Ideas, Political, Politics

  "Master of DISASTER". David Beers, Mother Jones Magazine, Volume 14, No. 8, October 1989.

• By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.

  Newt Gingrich

  Moon, Politics, Firsts

  "On Florida's Space Coast, Gingrich Aims For The Moon". www.npr.org. January 26, 2012.

• I think that one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the camp fire, but are lousy in politics.

  Newt Gingrich

  Party, Boys, Thinking

  Newt Gingrich's Address to the College Republicans at the Atlanta Airport Holiday Inn, www.pbs.org. June 24, 1978.

• A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

  Newt Gingrich

  Funny, Volleyball, Beach

• Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

  Newt Gingrich

  War, Political, Politics

• You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

  Newt Gingrich

  Giving, Political, Attention

• I love the environment, but I'm cheap on the environment.

  Newt Gingrich

  Political, Politics, Environment

• The greatest leaders in fighting for an integrated America in the twentieth century were in the Democratic Party. The fact is, it was the liberal wing of the Democratic Party that ended segregation. The fact is that it was Franklin Delano Roosevelt who gave hope to a nation that was in despair and could have slid into dictatorship. And the fact is, every Republican has much to learn from studying what the Democrats did right.

  Newt Gingrich

  Party, Fighting, Wings

• The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.

  Newt Gingrich

  Government, Long, Political

• I want to make sure every House Republican is protected from some kind of dishonest, Democratic edge. So, let me say on the record: any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood.

  Newt Gingrich

  Sunday, House, Records

  "Gingrich Admits 'Mistake' Over Ryan Medicare Comments, But Vows Not to Play Washington 'Trivial Pursuit' and 'Gotcha' Games". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2011.

• The folks who want to build this mosque, who are really radical Islamists, who want to triumphfully prove they can build a mosque next to a place where 3,000 Americans were killed by radical Islamists. Those folks don't have any interest in reaching out to the community. They're trying to make a case about supremacy... This happens all the time in America. Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor.

  Newt Gingrich

  America, Museums, Holocaust

  "Newt Gingrich's Legacy As A Political Commentator: Smears, Falsehoods, And Inflammatory Rhetoric" by Fae Jencks and David Shere, www.mediamatters.org. March 2, 2011.

• The fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn't want to talk about ideology because they don't want to explain publicly what they're really doing.

  Newt Gingrich

  Politics, Want, Facts

• As a citizen, I would rather have a President McCain that we fight with 20% of the time, than a President Clinton or a President Obama that we fight with 90% of the time.

  Newt Gingrich

  Fighting, President, Citizens

• In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

  Newt Gingrich

  Party, Winning, Politics

• What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

  Newt Gingrich

  Leader, Political, Voters

• The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and does not believe in data that it has not internally generated.

  Newt Gingrich

  Leadership, Money, Party

  "Gingrich: CBO a 'reactionary socialist institution'" By Charles Riley, money.cnn.com. November 22, 2011.

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