Quotes by Newt Gingrich

“You cant trust anybody with power”

“If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened.”

“It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they cant read”

“I love the environment, but Im cheap on the environment.”

“To David Sarnoff, the creator of NBC, the word visionary meant a capacity to see into tomorrow and make it work.”

“The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.”

“All free people stand on Reagans shoulders. His principled policies proved that free markets create wealth, that the rule of law sustains freedom, and that all people everywhere deserve the right to dream, to pursue their dreams, and to govern themselves.”

“I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we dont 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 a lousy”

“What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If [voters] care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.”

“This is not one person doing one bad thing. You cant have a corrupt lobbyist unless you have a corrupt member (of Congress) or a corrupt staff. ... This was a team effort.”

“Unequivocally, the House Republicans need to select a new majority leader in late January or early February.”

“Any effort to explain Iraq as We are on track and making progress is nonsense, ... The left has a constant drumbeat that this is Vietnam and a bottomless pit. The daily and weekly casualties leave people feeling that things arent going well.”

“This is a crossroads for the Bush presidency, ... This is a very exciting period about what is effective government in the 21st century. Either he will be FDR and lead a dramatic change of government, or he will be defender of a failed system. The biggest political challenge for the next two years is to re-centre the government.”

“Today I have reached a difficult personal decision. I will not be a candidate for Speaker of the 106th Congress,”

“I found everything weve seen about Mrs. Willeys testimony ... to be very troubling,”

“I could hardly stand by and allow the party to cannibalize itself in that situation, and I felt it (the decision to step down) was best for all of us.”

“I spent 40 years of my life getting us here, ... The idea that I would be the excuse to cannibalize the majority is so sickening I couldnt risk it.”

“Frankly I believe that theres too little funding for intelligence, we have too few assets and too few analysts. And I think if the Congress and others are going to demand a greater capacity in intelligence were going to have to be prepared to pay for a more sophisticated and a more intense structure of intelligence capabilities, and I think its wrong for some members of Congress to vote to cut intelligence spending, to vote to cut the number of intelligence analysts and then to set unrealistically high demands on the intelligence community.”

“I dont think the Congress could move forward only on Lewinsky, unless he had such a clear case, such an overpowering case, ... But I think we would be better served to know the whole story.”

“A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and thats what freedom is all about.”