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• Maybe we need a tax credit for the poorest Americans to buy a laptop. Now, maybe that's wrong, maybe that's expensive, maybe we can't do it, but I'll tell you, any signal that we can send to the poorest Americans that says, 'We're going into a 21st century, third-wave information age, and so are you, and we want to carry you with us.'

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  Age, Needs, Credit

  "Your Daily Newt: A $40 Billion Entitlement for Laptops" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. December 20, 2011.

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• In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

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  Jobs, Justified, Killing

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

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  Leader, Political, Voters

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• Centralized health dictatorship.

  Newt Gingrich

  Care, Health Care, Dictatorship

  "Newt Gingrich: Health Care Reform Is ‘Centralized Health Dictatorship’" by Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 19, 2011.

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• Governor Romney may be running for CEO, I'm running for President

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  Running, President, May

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• I do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who have been here a quarter century, who have children and grandchildren, who are members of the community, who may have done something 25 years ago, separate them from their families, and expel them.

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  Children, Believe, Years

  "Where GOP candidates stand on immigration". Republican Presidential debate in Washington, D.C., www.sandiegouniontribune.com. November 22, 2011.

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• What's the job of the candidate in this world? The job of the candidate is to raise the money to hire the consultants to do the focus groups to figure out the 30-second answers to be memorized by the candidate. This is stunningly dangerous.

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  Jobs, Focus, Groups

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• I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt - pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of your lifetime - in fact, the only major entitlement reform now is welfare.

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  Years, Four, Firsts

  "Cain to Push Passage of 9-9-9 Plan if Conservative Republican Occupies White House". "Hannity", www.foxnews.com. December 16, 2011.

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• It is false to suggest that Thomas Jefferson or any other Founding Father believed in a legal barrier to God in the public square.

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  Father, Squares, Founding

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• Even if Iraq IS a civil war, people have won civil wars.

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  War, Iraq, People

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• The Republican brand has been so badly damaged that if Republicans try to run an anti-Obama, anti-Rev. Wright or, if Sen. Clinton wins, anti-Clinton campaign, they are simply going to fail. This model has already been tested with disastrous results.

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  Running, Winning, Trying

  "Why Democrats Are Promoting Gingrich’s Worries Regarding the 2008 Elections" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. May 6, 2008.

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• So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln/Douglas style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.

  Newt Gingrich

  Style, Three, Use

  "CNN live event/special". Newt Gingrich's speech at the CNN Southern Republican debate sponsored by the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Charleston, South Carolina, transcripts.cnn.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.

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  Unions, Might, Carter

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• We have a choice between those who are failing to deliver and those who are unthinkable ... Neither party currently is where the country is.

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  Country, Party, Choices

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• I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee.

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  Thinking, Odds, Looks

  "Gingrich's Unconventional White House Bid: A Retrospective". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. April 25, 2012.

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• Only the elites despise earning money.

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  Earning, Despise, Earning Money

  "Race raised in US election year". "AM" with Lisa Millar, www.abc.net.au. January 18, 2012.

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• We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?

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  Starting Over, Reform, Would Be

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• If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

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  Political, Ignorant, Empires

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• All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

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  Jobs, Training, Requirements

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• You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.

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  Thinking, Racism, Answers

  "Gingrich on His Campaign Surge and Racial Politics". "NBC Today Show" with Ann Curry, archives.nbclearn.com. January 19, 2012.

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• I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

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  Religious, Thinking, Should Have

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• President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

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  Successful, President, American History

  "Gingrich promises to slash taxes, calls Obama ‘food stamp president’" by Philip Rucker, www.washingtonpost.com. May 13, 2011 May 13, 2011.

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• I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.

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  Jobs, People, Way

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• President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

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  Jobs, Usa, President

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• When you have a 12-minute debate over whether lipstick on a pig refers to a demeaning comment about the vice presidential candidate, you know we're not talking about health reform, we're not talking about energy policy, we're not talking about balancing the budget. And you know, it's fairly stupid.

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  Stupid, Pigs, Talking

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