Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
Newton Leroy "Newt" Gingrichis an American political consultant, former politician, and historian. He represented Georgia's 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1979 until his resignation in 1999, and served as the 50th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. In 2012, Gingrich was a candidate for the Republican Party presidential nomination...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth17 June 1943
CityHarrisburg, PA
CountryUnited States of America
undermining the core values of civility -- and it's time they were stopped by a society that values free speech enough to protect it.
We may be at the end of a 40-year cycle of bitterness. I've spent enough of my life fighting. It would be nice to spend some time constructing, and I think that there's a feel in the country that's very similar.
The people helping us have apparently been killed, ... Saddam is still in charge. We are trying to help somebody who doesn't want help, in order to hurt somebody we are not hurting, in order to save people who just got killed. I am not sure what the policy is about.
We're now looking ahead to what we're going to do in the next two years, next three years, but I think it's in the same model of trying to continue to move towards a reformed federal government.
Imagine a party that grew over the next four years as much as we've grown over the last four.
If we renew American civilization, if we restore faith, if we defeat the drug culture, if we reestablish incentives, if we decentralize so local volunteers and local leaders create local solutions, if we replace ignorance with knowledge so that every citizen is able to pursue happiness, I think we could in a generation give our grandchildren the kind of America which would let them lead the entire human race,
If we regroup and reclaim the mantle of reform and change, we are likely to win '06 and '08. If we do not regroup, we are likely to have a very difficult '06 and '08.
If this goes down and we end up in a steep, worldwide depression, some of us will have the comfort of knowing we cast the right vote,
If we can't respond faster than this to an event we saw coming across the Gulf for days, then why do we think we're prepared to respond to a nuclear or biological attack?
Today I have reached a difficult personal decision. I will not be a candidate for Speaker of the 106th Congress,
Today and tomorrow we are at a historic moment,
To David Sarnoff, the creator of NBC, the word 'visionary' meant a capacity to see into tomorrow and make it work.
What you are building, if you build it right, if you dedicate yourself to perfection, will allow the people across the planet to be free for the next half century, will allow America to lead the world,
He was a kind soul with a rare ability to make people laugh, ... lost a very, very dear friend.