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
between those who would keep taxes higher on taxpayers to transfer the money to welfare recipients, and those of us who believe that after 16 years, it is actually time to have a bill dedicated to helping taxpayers and to giving mothers and fathers more take-home pay and resources to take care of their children.
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.
We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
All they have left is to smear the speaker because they can't solve Medicare, they can't solve welfare and they can't balance the budget. This is the last pathetic thing they've got,
The most important social welfare program in America is a job.
I think we prefer to go to instant check on an immediate basis and try to accelerate implementing instant checks so that you could literally check by thumb print whether there was a convicted felon with dangerous behavior or dangerous mental behavior. Instant check is a much better system than the Brady process.
I think a lot of our members resent the kind of muscle that the union bosses have brought into the Capitol,
I think this administration tends to have the right general policies but to be remarkably unwilling to look at how weak their instruments of implementation are. We threw away a year in Iraq because of our mistakes.
It is not my habit to answer questions posed to me when I am halfway out the door with my back turned ... The speaker and I continue to work as effectively as we have for the last four years.
It is our historic destiny and fate, there is no other country big enough, complex enough or capable of providing leadership on a worldwide basis.
I think it would be more helpful now if they find a way to bring real movement. I think we need more than initiatives. We need steps to be taken.
My campaign could have paid the entire amount,
Most of the offices were surprised to learn about it when it was announced at the White House,
It functions like an afterthought. We couldn't have designed a greater invitation to unhappiness.