Quotes from Newt Gingrich

The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up.

Frankly, I would not have made any difference in Vietnam, but much more is what difference it would have made in me.

NASA should not be developing its own proprietary version of capabilities it could purchase commercially at much lower cost, especially when we know the agency's bureaucratic tendencies will be to view the commercial versions as competitors to kill.

Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth. These people are terrorists.

I believe we will elect a new President in 2012.

I pray before virtually every speech and virtually every major decision.

We need a visionary leader with very big and bold ideas. This is a very big, very bold country.

Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.

Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.

We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.

We should end the Environmental Protection Agency's war against American oil and gas.

I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.

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

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

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

You can't trust anybody with power.

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.

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.

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.

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.

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 think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

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