110+ Newt Gingrich Quotes (Influential, Innovative And Polarizing)

Newt Gingrich is an American politician who served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. He was a major leader in the Republican Party from the mid-1980s until his retirement from Congress in 1999. Gingrich was also a candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

Top 10 Newt Gingrich Quotes

1. 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.
2. The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
3. Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
4. All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.
5. President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.
6. I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.
7. I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.
8. The most important social welfare program in America is a job.
9. Maybe Governor Romney in the spirit of openness should tell us how much money he's made off of how many households that have been foreclosed by his investments.
10. What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can't help it if liberal books don't sell.

Newt Gingrich Short Quotes

• I discourage a cult of personality.
• I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.
• It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.
• It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.
• Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood.
• Only the elites despise earning money.
• Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
• I don't care who you are, I care who you want to be.
• We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!
• We should end the Environmental Protection Agency's war against American oil and gas.

Newt Gingrich Famous Quotes And Sayings

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash' unless it's illegal. — Newt Gingrich

The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple innocent people in the name of letting hooligans loose. — Newt Gingrich

Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a process of enforced boredom and age segregation that has produced one of the most destructive social arrangements in human history: consigning 13-year-old males to learning from 15-year-old males. — Newt Gingrich

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran. — Newt Gingrich

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

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots. — Newt Gingrich

And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind. — Newt Gingrich

By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American. — Newt Gingrich

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office. — Newt Gingrich

The America in which we grew up is vastly different from the America the secular-socialist Left want to create. And that's why saving America is the fundamental challenge of our time. The secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did. — Newt Gingrich

Remember, most of the bureaucrats voted for Hillary Clinton. Most of the bureaucrats deeply dislike what Trump is trying to accomplish, and most of the bureaucrats think they can't be fired, so they can outlast you. — Newt Gingrich

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. — Newt Gingrich

Public Broadcasting is a sandbox for the rich. The NEA and the HEH are simply enclaves of the left using your money to propagandize your children against your values. — Newt Gingrich

I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps. — Newt Gingrich

We have got to get beyond this political bologna. I'm not allowed to say anything positive about Hillary Clinton because then I'm not a loyal Republican, and she's not allowed to say anything positive about me because then she's not a loyal Democrat. What a stupid way to run a country. — Newt Gingrich

It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid... These schools should get rid of unionized janitors, have one master janitor, pay local students to take care of the school. — Newt Gingrich

Lions cannot afford to hunt mice because they literally will starve to death, even if they catch them. Lions and all large carnivores have to hunt game large enough to justify the investment, so they have to hunt antelope and zebra. Why is this important? Because most senior executives are really big on chipmunks. — Newt Gingrich

We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility. — Newt Gingrich

I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [his grandchildren are] my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American. — Newt Gingrich

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 can't even read. — Newt Gingrich

Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it. — Newt Gingrich

Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of common sense that is pretty hard to deal with. — Newt Gingrich

If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes. — Newt Gingrich

We used to be a serious country. When we got attacked at Pearl Harbor, we took on Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. We beat all three in less than four years. We're about to enter the seventh year of this phony war against ... [terrorist groups], and we're losing. — Newt Gingrich

For most of the rise of modern medicine, the brain was a really unknown zone and was all based in guesswork. Well, that's all changing. And the opioid recovery is a very good example of the scale of change we're seeing. — Newt Gingrich

That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior....I think Obama gets up every morning with a worldview that is fundamentally wrong about reality...If you look at the continuous denial of reality, there has got to be a point where someone stands up and says that this is just factually insane. — Newt Gingrich

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history. — Newt Gingrich

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. — Newt Gingrich

Reagan believed the power of truth restated the world and re framed the world. I am a Reaganite. I'm proud to be a Reaganite. I will tell the truth, even if it's at the risk of causing some confusion sometimes with the timid. — Newt Gingrich

If we'd had government on [today's] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that railroads could not travel faster than a horse because it would be an unfair competitive advantage. — Newt Gingrich

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country. — Newt Gingrich

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated. — Newt Gingrich

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. — Newt Gingrich

As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, America gave him the White House based on the same credentials. — Newt Gingrich

If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians? — Newt Gingrich

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. — Newt Gingrich

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way. — Newt Gingrich

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now. — Newt Gingrich

There’s a large part of me that’s four years old. I wake up in the morning and I know that somewhere there’s a cookie. I don’t know where it is but I know it’s mine and I have to go find it. That’s how I live my life. My life is amazingly filled with fun. — Newt Gingrich

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural? — Newt Gingrich

I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American. — Newt Gingrich

We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point? — Newt Gingrich

Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration? — Newt Gingrich

Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail. — Newt Gingrich

The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media. — Newt Gingrich

I want to make sure every House Republican is protected from some kind of dishonest, Democratic edge. So, let me say on the record: any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood. — Newt Gingrich

Now, we don't get rid of it in round one because we don't think that that's politically smart, and we don't think that's the right way to go through a transition. But we believe it's going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it - voluntarily. — Newt Gingrich

The problem isn’t too little money in political campaigns, but not enough. — Newt Gingrich

I think that we've had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs and who were historically part of the Arab community. — Newt Gingrich

To the degree I was too brash, Too self-confident or too pushy, I apologize. — Newt Gingrich

The Constitution gives the president of the United States an extraordinarily wide grant of authority to use the power of the pardon. — Newt Gingrich

I believe most Americans are pro-choice and anti-abortion. — Newt Gingrich

Donald Trump was elected by people who believe Washington has too much power. — Newt Gingrich

I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job. — Newt Gingrich

I was attacked the other night for being grandiose. I would just want you to note: Lincoln standing at Council Bluffs was grandiose. The Wright Brothers standing at Kitty Hawk were grandiose. John F. Kennedy was grandiose. I accept the charge that I am grandiose and that Americans are instinctively grandiose. — Newt Gingrich

The Big Trump is a historic figure. The Big Trump beat 16 other people for the nomination. The Big Trump is creating issues that make the establishment very uncomfortable. The Little Trump frankly gets out - is stupid. I mean, that comment just then is dumb. And I don't defend him when he wanders off; I've told him over and over. — Newt Gingrich

Donald Trump has a grand direction. He doesn't have a grand strategy. He wants to re-establish American authority and power and to relaunch the American economy. — Newt Gingrich

Now you have to ask a question - is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money? Or is that in fact somehow a little bit of a flawed system? And so I do draw distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods and then leaving a factory that should be there. — Newt Gingrich

Is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money? — Newt Gingrich

Military tribunals to lock people up the way Lincoln did. — Newt Gingrich

More people are on food stamps today because of Obamas policies than ever in history. I would like to be the best paycheck president in American history. ... And so Im prepared if the NAACP invites me, Ill go to their convention and talk about why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps. — Newt Gingrich

1994 GOP victory destroyed bipartisanship. — Newt Gingrich

I think that Donald Trump is very concerned about finding the right way to be effective in a responsible way. And he wants to be effective. — Newt Gingrich

I have six times as many Twitter followers as all the other candidates combined, but it didn't count because if it counted I'd still be a candidate; since I can't be a candidate that can't count. — Newt Gingrich

Rethink every aspect of bureaucracy. — Newt Gingrich

Even if Iraq IS a civil war, people have won civil wars. — Newt Gingrich

Under our [constitutional system] - either we're going to have to rethink our Constitution, or we're going to have to rethink our process of decision-making. — Newt Gingrich

Hillary Clinton has built a huge machine. Donald Trump's asset is people on Facebook and twitter. He can communicate with them eight or 10 times a day with no money. This is a different world. — Newt Gingrich

The most powerful force changing our society is the information revolution. — Newt Gingrich

If I can get you to a point where you can lead a full life, sustain a job, earn money for your family - you can be completely engaged as a citizen. — Newt Gingrich

Hillary Clinton is lying again and again. — Newt Gingrich

On the battlefield of ideas, winning requires moving toward the sound of the guns. — Newt Gingrich

I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird. — Newt Gingrich

Nothing gets done (in Congress) unless it's bipartisan. And the reason that matters is that it's a function of reality. — Newt Gingrich

The idea that the United States can't guard its own border is silly. It's a sign that were not serious about this...people who legally shouldn't be here. When the state is forced to take care of them - for example, if they have an illegal alien in their prison - the federal government should pay for it. If Washington has to pay for it, Washington's going to more rapidly understand why we have to take some necessary steps. — Newt Gingrich

Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers. — Newt Gingrich

Go get a job after you take a bath. — Newt Gingrich

Donald Trump has to understand and his family has to understand that there is a public interest which transcends them. — Newt Gingrich

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something. — Newt Gingrich

The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and does not believe in data that it has not internally generated. — Newt Gingrich

Give the park police more ammo. — Newt Gingrich

All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care. — Newt Gingrich

Ongoing battle against liberals nationalizing healthcare. — Newt Gingrich

Donald Trump has a compulsion to counterattack and is very pugnacious. — Newt Gingrich

Gingrich - primary mission Advocate of civilization Definer of civilization Teacher of the Rules of Civilization... Leader (Possibly) of the civilizing forces... — Newt Gingrich

There is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us. — Newt Gingrich

To suggest that it's OK to assassinate a president, I think is a felony. And I think that it should be. — Newt Gingrich

The Growth and Opportunity Project is the most successful reexamination of a national party in modern times. Te disciplined focus of Chairman Reince Priebus has turned its suggestions into realities that are changing the political setting of elections. No one should underestimate the boldness of these changes and the courage they took. — Newt Gingrich

It doesn’t matter what I do. People need to hear what I have to say. There’s no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn’t matter what I live. — Newt Gingrich

Centralized health dictatorship. — Newt Gingrich

Life Lessons by Newt Gingrich

1. Newt Gingrich's life is a testament to the power of hard work and dedication. He rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most influential figures in American politics.
2. He also demonstrates the importance of staying true to one's beliefs and values, even in the face of opposition. He stood by his convictions and was willing to take risks in order to make a difference.
3. Finally, Gingrich's life serves as a reminder that success is not guaranteed, and that it is important to stay humble and strive to make the world a better place.