599 Quotes by Newt Gingrich

I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt – pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of your lifetime – in fact, the only major entitlement reform to now is welfare.

Now, I know among the politically correct, you’re not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable.

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.

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.

I’m opposed to giving people money for doing nothing.

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.

Book cover, ‘Reefer Club’ Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.

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.

Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There’s no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center.