Quotes from Newt Gingrich

If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.

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

I got active in this business of politics and self-government in 1958 when my father, who was serving in the U.S. Army, took us to the battlefield of Verdun.

I had a period of thinking that I would have been called 'Newt the McPherson,' as in 'Robert the Bruce.'

What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read.

I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.

Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess.

And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

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.

White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw.

The problem isn't too little money in political campaigns, but not enough.

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.

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

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

The fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn't want to talk about ideology because they don't want to explain publicly what they're really doing.

I love the environment, but I'm cheap on the environment.

The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.

Government should take management lesson from private sector.

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.

We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.

We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair.

If you want to see why President Obama is worried this November, watch The Hope and the Change.

Whether you're talking about Chris Christie, or you're talking about Rick Perry or Scott Walker or John Kasich, there's more interesting evolution at the state level than there is in Washington.