Quotes by Newt Gingrich

“If the Soviet empire still existed, Id be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.”

“Were all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.”

“Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.”

“You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.”

“In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.”

“Its going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.”

“It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washingtons cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.”

“Im not a natural leader. Im too intellectual; Im too abstract; I think too much.”

“How this president handles the Middle East in general and wins in Iraq in particular will be probably the most important definition of his presidency.”

“That is such a huge level of fraud and error and waste that we believe the (IRS) should be overhauled now,”

“In Henrys case, its human and its personal and hes a decent and wonderful man, and many of you have known him over the years, ... And I think if you were to drop him a little note and let him know that you share his pain and youre sorry that doing his duty leads to that kind of treatment by this White House, I think he would be deeply grateful, because hes a wonderful person.”

“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 us.”

“This is not because IRS employees are bad human beings or lazy human beings or stupid human beings; it is because they have been asked to manage and administer a tax code that has become impossible,”

“I want to get this bill signed, so for the first time in 16 years, the American people have a tax cut, but were not going to give it up flippantly, were going to work to keep it. I think the president has to look at what does he want. Hes not going to get everything he wants; this is not a one-way street.”

“[On the Supreme Court striking down a law barring] indecent ... I think were better to have a crash program to develop an inexpensive software package for parents to allow them to monitor the sets for their kids. It is doable and the technology is available and its legitimate for parents as parents to monitor what their children see on the Internet.”

“We probably should have almost maniacally focused on cutting taxes, reforming government, working on saving Social Security, recognize that would cause a big fight, accept that was a better fight for us than drifting into October with, as people kept saying, no national themes, no national dialogue,”

“What the president should recognize is that the American people are tired of thousands of pages of regulations, of audits they dont understand by agents they cant talk with from a bureaucracy they cant control,”

“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.”

“If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections . . .”