By definition, the person who learns enough to become the nominee is almost certainly the best person for the general election. – Newt Gingrich
Whether you’re talking about Chris Christie, or you’re talking about Rick Perry or Scott Walker or John Kasich, there’s more interesting evolution at the state level than there is in Washington. – Newt Gingrich
An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job. – Newt Gingrich
You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no money, no habit of work. What if you paid them in the afternoon to work in the clerical office or as the assistant librarian? – Newt Gingrich
Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they’re cultural? – Newt Gingrich
Somehow we must reintegrate the scientific with the popular and reconnect the future to the present. This is less a job for scientists, engineers, bureaucrats, and administrators and more a job for novelists, moviemakers, popularizers, and politicians. – Newt Gingrich
Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration? – Newt Gingrich
I don’t see how the party that says it’s the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century. – Newt Gingrich
You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate. – Newt Gingrich
I think my health is probably fine. Let’s be honest, you never know what could happen to somebody, but I think I’m in very good shape right now. – Newt Gingrich
The bigotry question goes both ways. There’s a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media. – Newt Gingrich
The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over. – Newt Gingrich
I joined a Republican Party that was used to losing, used to being browbeaten by the Democrats. I represent a totally different style. – Newt Gingrich
There I was on the front page of the ‘London Times’ as speaker of the House with an animal on top of my head. I liked it, but it was not what my staff thought was appropriately dignified. – Newt Gingrich
And my point was one I think that you’d agree with, which is there’s no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we’re either color blind or we’re not color blind. – Newt Gingrich
Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them. – Newt Gingrich
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. – Newt Gingrich
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument. – Newt Gingrich
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
One of my messages to Republicans is very simple: One-third of your schedule should be listening to people in minority communities. – Newt Gingrich
