Newt Gingrich

When you come to America, you get to become an American, and Trump, who has grandparents who came to the U.S., should understand this as much as anybody.

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.

The fact is inner-city black districts are not the same as suburban Republican districts. That's a fact. And people need to go and learn about the whole country.

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.

Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas.

I joined a Republican Party that was used to losing, used to being browbeaten by the Democrats. I represent a totally different style.

I think conservatives can be for very tough-minded trade.

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

We need a visionary leader with very big and bold ideas. This is a very big, very bold country.

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

The key is to remember there is a tomorrow morning. The dance will continue.

The Central Park Zoo is a little gem in the middle of the city. Its penguin exhibit is terrific, and the seals are a permanent center of attraction for children.

The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

The government shut down 12 times under Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill. It was only shut down twice while I was speaker.

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

Is the purpose of free elections to allow the most clever and vicious person to aggregate power, or is the purpose of free elections to enable the American people to have a serious conversation about their country's future and try to find both a policy and a personality that they think will carry to them that better future?

This is a candidate who never even thought about policy. What Trump represents is pure willpower and the notion of breaking through the system.

While abolishing judgeships and lower federal courts is a blunt tool and one whose use is warranted only in the most extreme of circumstances... it is one of many possibilities to check and balance the judiciary.

In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision.

Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal.

I clearly have done things that were wrong. I've clearly had to seek God's forgiveness.

If, as the popular saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the people who run our public schools fit that description.

I got active in this business of politics and self-government in 1958 when my father, who was serving in the U.S. Army, took us to the battlefield of Verdun.

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

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.

If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by.

You can either be in the Ron Paul tradition and say there's nothing wrong with heroin and cocaine, or you can be in the tradition that says, 'These kind of addictive drugs are terrible; they deprive you of full citizenship, and they lead you to a dependency which is antithetical to being an American.'

I think 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, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

Think about it. If it's taking pictures, it's not a cellphone. If it has a McDonald's app to tell you where McDonald's is based on your GPS location, that's not a cellphone. If you can get Wikipedia or go to Google, that's not a cellphone.

If Trump keeps learning, he could become a big asset. He will shatter the traditional patterns.

I was once, I think, bitten on the nose by a lion cub.

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

Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.

Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and terrorists who are dangerous already and who would be brutal in power if given the chance.

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

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

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

Islamic extremism may well be the greatest threat to Western values and Western security in the world.

I believe we will elect a new President in 2012.

America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization.

If you're not brave, you're not going to be free.

Whether it's his beloved game of polo or his magical success in business, Norman Brinker simply does not know how to lose.

I can tell you I can work on four or five hours of sleep a night and cat nap all day, and I can go for 8 or 10 days on the road, and it doesn't seem to affect me.

I discourage a cult of personality.

You've got the North Koreans building weapons; you got the Iranians building weapons. You've got - the Pakistanis already have at least 100 nuclear weapons. Do you think there's any serious effort in this country to come to grips with that?

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

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

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.

If you're not in 'The Washington Post' every day, you might as well not exist.

I think what you'll find is overall, overwhelmingly, evangelicals would prefer me to Barack Obama.

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?

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

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.

Trump has got to, I think, move to a new level. This is no longer the primaries. He's no longer an interesting contender. He is now the potential leader of the United States and he's got to move his game up to the level of being a potential leader.

I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid.

My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves.

The values of the Left cripple human beings, weaken cities, make it difficult for us to in fact survive as a country.

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.

I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.

I pray before virtually every speech and virtually every major decision.

I believe most evangelicals know that defeating Obama is at heart of our country's future.

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.

If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?

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

I intend to go up there and kick the system over, not try to change it.

Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for 'religious toleration' are arrogantly dishonest.

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.

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.

My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results.

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

Only the elites despise earning money.

This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain't going to happen.

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.

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.

I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama.

By definition, the person who learns enough to become the nominee is almost certainly the best person for the general election.

I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird.

If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.

Now, I know among the politically correct, you're not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable.

What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read.

Trump would represent turmoil - unless he changed, unless he said, 'Now that I got to be president, I'm gonna be normal.'

If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he's black, we would all go crazy.

The genius of guys like Lincoln and Reagan and FDR - the great communicator leaders - is that they're actually educators, so they understand when they use a phrase that they have to explain it, because, by definition, you won't understand it or they wouldn't need to be using it.

The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up.

I think you can write a psychological profile of me that says I found a way to immerse my insecurities in a cause large enough to justify whatever I wanted it to.

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.

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.

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

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

I'm a controversial guy.

I've been very clear publicly I'm not a perfect human being, and I've made mistakes in my life, and I've had to apologize to God and to seek reconciliation.

You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week.

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

My style is to stay on the offensive: to take risks, to recover very fast when you make a mistake, but to keep moving forward.

Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington.

You can never study Franklin Delano Roosevelt too much.

It's been one of the most painful things I've ever been through in my whole life: trying to understand the degree to which behaviors that I thought were totally appropriate were destructive.