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Quotes from Newt Gingrich

More than just a zoo, the Animal Kingdom is an extraordinary experience of animals, rides and performances. The exhibits have the scale and creativity you associate with Disney. The African safari ride is terrific and worth riding several times.
~ Newt Gingrich
The one period of glory in NASA was the first nine years when they weren't a bureaucracy yet... and they haven't gotten back to that excitement, that adventurism, and won't. So, I would take most of the NASA budget, and I would turn it into prizes for private sector.
~ Newt Gingrich
The government shut down 12 times under Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill. It was only shut down twice while I was speaker.
~ Newt Gingrich
As the largest market on the planet, I'm not particularly worried about countries that want to start a trade war with America. I think they would end up losing.
~ Newt Gingrich
What I said was: We want everybody to learn English because we don't want - I didn't use the word 'Spanish.'
~ Newt Gingrich
I have enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I'm doing it. I am now a famous person. I represent real power.
~ Newt Gingrich
Donald Trump is the one who said if somebody really wants an arms race, we'll drown him.
~ Newt Gingrich
Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.
~ Newt Gingrich
Cincinnati has one of the most diverse animal collections in the world, with more than 500 species represented. They also have a really good insect exhibit.
~ Newt Gingrich
Heterosexual marriage is the heart of our civilization.
~ Newt Gingrich
Oh, he was asking to have an open marriage and I refused.
~ Newt Gingrich
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of the hard work you already did!
~ Newt Gingrich
Part of what has made America unique in this world is our belief, set forth in our founding document, that our rights come from our Creator, not from the government. Thus, our nation's belief in God checks the growth of government and helps keep us free.
~ Newt Gingrich
if you knock down every law in pursuit of the devil, then the laws are gone when the devil turns on you.
~ Newt Gingrich
that America will never be happy till she gets clear of foreign dominion.
~ Newt Gingrich
Enabling people to pursue happiness and work to fulfill their dreams (while allowing customers to define what works and what doesn't) has been the most powerful engine for economic success in world history.
~ Newt Gingrich
However, as Franklin warned in the New-England Courant in 1722, "in those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything else his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation, must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."9
~ Newt Gingrich
Certainly, it is important to be polite, and nobody should think that using racial or ethnic slurs is acceptable. But political correctness has morphed from a desire to avoid needlessly offending people to a tool of the Left to marginalize and vilify reasonable Americans who disagree with the elite liberal agenda.
~ Newt Gingrich
His response was priceless. After a moment of thought, he said, $70 to 80 million: that would be a yacht. This would be a lot more fun than a yacht! That's when Callista and I learned that a Trump candidacy was likely -- and a Trump presidency was possible.
~ Newt Gingrich
Now, I know among the politically correct, you're not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable.
~ Newt Gingrich
America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization.
~ Newt Gingrich
People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz.
~ Newt Gingrich
Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.
~ Newt Gingrich
Because I am much like Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, I'm such an unconventional political figure that you really need to design a unique campaign that fits the way I operate.
~ Newt Gingrich