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

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

I discourage a cult of personality.
Newt Gingrich

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.
Newt Gingrich

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.
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

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

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

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.
Newt Gingrich

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
Newt Gingrich

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

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

You can't trust anybody with power.
Newt Gingrich

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