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
Any effort to change the benefit pattern just virtually guarantees you can't get anything done, ... The Democrats and labor are putting together a massive campaign. If you give them a weapon that big, they're going to succeed.
And then we listen more and we say 'But why are you going to do this?' and we listen more and at some point, most of the members say, 'I don't want to talk any more. If I vote 'yes,' can I leave?' And it's a brutal system,
are really helping us make our case by drawing clearly the attention to the way in which they would write the tax cut bill so actually it is an increased welfare bill from their standpoint. We are directing the tax cuts to taxpayers.
This could end up being a very historic summer,
When I visit Tibet next August I hope he and the Dalai Lama will be there to greet me,
Paul Coverdell lived a life that we can all be proud of and look up to,
Well, it depends on whether the president instructs his staff to testify. It depends on whether the attitude is obstruction or the attitude is cooperation. And, I think at the moment we don't know what will happen.
Instead of Theodore Roosevelt's 'talk softly and carry a big stick,' we have yelled and carried a toothpick, ... And what has happened? The people we are protecting are driven out or killed or raped, the people that are under the shelter of the U.S. are no longer in Kosovo.
I'm not at all sure you can get to that this year and I'm not at all sure that it's a smart idea to try to get to that this year,
in 60 days they'd become slower and less competent.
If the president is willing to sign a bill that has those reforms, which everybody agrees intellectually are needed in the long run, no one denies that we have to have some pretty basic reforms as people live longer and baby boomers head towards retirement, if he's willing to work with us, I think that we can get something done, but frankly he can kill that by simply indicating he won't support it, ... It's too difficult to carry reforms of that size against the president, so he has a unique burden of having to decide whether or not he can accept that.
If Saddam Hussein goes back on his word,
I frankly don't understand all of the things that happened yesterday, and I'm not sure anyone else in America does either,
I helped convince him to run (for Congress) ... when he was going to retire I helped make him Appropriations chairman,