Newt Gingrich
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“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” -Newt Gingrich
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“Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.” -Newt Gingrich
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“The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.” -Newt Gingrich
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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.” -Newt Gingrich
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“Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.” -Newt Gingrich
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“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.” -Newt Gingrich
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“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.” -Newt Gingrich
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“We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.” -Newt Gingrich
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“I’m not a natural leader. I’m too intellectual I’m too abstract I think too much.” -Newt Gingrich
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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
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“In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.” -Newt Gingrich
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“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.” -Newt Gingrich
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“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.” -Newt Gingrich
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“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.” -Newt Gingrich
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“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
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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.” -Newt Gingrich
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“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
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“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.” -Newt Gingrich
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