Biography

Newt served as Speaker of the House of Representatives in the United States and has been named Times Person of the Year.
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Newt Gingrich
Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.
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I discourage a cult of personality.
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If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
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Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.
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A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
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In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
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I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.
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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.
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You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.
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If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as "candle making industry threatened.
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I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't 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 are lousy in politics.
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Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
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The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
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What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.
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It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.
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An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.
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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
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You can't trust anybody with power.
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One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.
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