Quotes from Newt Gingrich

As a citizen, I would rather have a President McCain that we fight with 20% of the time, than a President Clinton or a President Obama that we fight with 90% of the time.

I think If I were to look for the most foolish Clinton supporter and ask you to give them equal time nationally, I could find you some pretty nutty people who are for Hillary Clinton.

Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas.

The thing that shocks people... is that I mean what I say. I don't use hyperbole.

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.

It's been one of the most painful things I've ever been through in my whole life: trying to understand the degree to which behaviors that I thought were totally appropriate were destructive.

One of my messages to Republicans is very simple: One-third of your schedule should be listening to people in minority communities.

You can either be in the Ron Paul tradition and say there's nothing wrong with heroin and cocaine, or you can be in the tradition that says, 'These kind of addictive drugs are terrible; they deprive you of full citizenship, and they lead you to a dependency which is antithetical to being an American.'

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

If you are the normal white American, truth is you don't understand being black in America, and you instinctively underestimate the level of discrimination and the level of additional risk.

Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for 'religious toleration' are arrogantly dishonest.

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

I have a sense of being at peace. I understand when you give the sign of peace, and when the priest says, 'Peace be with you,' in a way I never did 10 or 15 years ago. I have a deep personal sense of what that means.

You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.

I intend to go up there and kick the system over, not try to change it.

If Trump keeps learning, he could become a big asset. He will shatter the traditional patterns.

When you come to America, you get to become an American, and Trump, who has grandparents who came to the U.S., should understand this as much as anybody.

Trump has got to, I think, move to a new level. This is no longer the primaries. He's no longer an interesting contender. He is now the potential leader of the United States and he's got to move his game up to the level of being a potential leader.

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.

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.

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

Somehow we must reintegrate the scientific with the popular and reconnect the future to the present. This is less a job for scientists, engineers, bureaucrats, and administrators and more a job for novelists, moviemakers, popularizers, and politicians.

If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by.

We have to be as militant defending America as the enemies of America are in trying to destroy America.