Quotes from 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.

The values of the Left cripple human beings, weaken cities, make it difficult for us to in fact survive as a country.

I have an enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet.

This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain't going to happen.

You can't trust anybody with power.

America is not a country that wanders around trusting people with power. This is a country that wants accountability.

I'm a little tired of people who have very big moral positions and very small power in reality.

Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and terrorists who are dangerous already and who would be brutal in power if given the chance.

The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.

You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week.

Philosophically, I am very different from normal politicians, and normal consultants found that very hard to deal with.

I discourage a cult of personality.

Whether it's his beloved game of polo or his magical success in business, Norman Brinker simply does not know how to lose.

The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful.

I'm a controversial guy.

My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves.

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.

We have big ideas. I just think that's part of how you campaign. You talk to the American people about big things.

When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.

That will change over time the entire flow of information and the entire quality of knowledge in the country and it will change the way people will try to play games in the legislative process.

So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln/Douglas style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

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.