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
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 helped convince him to run (for Congress) ... when he was going to retire I helped make him Appropriations chairman,
Charter members contribute $10,000 per year and many ... are activists,
By the end of today, both presidential candidates will have taken steps of admitting that we have to have personal control of our retirement savings and then we have to move toward a new model to deal with the baby boomers and their children,
I have people who come to this floor, who claim they represent the workers, who say they are for an international bank institution that is totally secret, that is run by a bureaucrat whose major policy is to raise taxes on workers in the Third World to pay off New York banks, ... Now that doesn't sound like populism to me.
In five or six days, I can meet more interesting people here than any place I know,