Quotes by Newt Gingrich

"Anyone who proposes that we pull out of Iraq needs to understand the price of defeat. The last time the United States was seen as weak and defeated, 1979 and 1980, we had a 444 day long hostage crisis in Iran, and an ambassador killed in Afghanistan. Those who advocate for defeat must be aware that they will bear the burden of our allies losing faith in us as well as China beginning to think that it may be able to seize Taiwan."
-Remarks to the Herzliya Conference, January 24, 2007.

"I think there may be a market out there for somebody who has enough sense not to run two years early, that if you think about it, these candidates are running for an entire year to get into a campaign to run for an entire year to get sworn in in January of 2009. And I just think the average person this is going to be like watching bad reruns of Survivor. People are going to say get them off the island, I don't want to see this anymore."
-On running for President too early, Fox News Sunday, 2/18/07

"The system's broken, it cannot be repaired.... This next generation had better be thinking about how you're going to replace this model with a 21st-century, intelligent, effective system that resembles UPS and FedEx and eBay and Google.''
-On Hurricane Recovery and Government's lack of adapting to new technology, Akron Beacon Journal, 4/6/06.


"I don't think anybody in office in Washington understands how complicated and difficult the near future is going to be."
-Akron Beacon Journal, 4/6/06.


"You are limited by the courage you bring, the genius of America, which we occasionally allow to slip away, is not that we produce brilliant leaders. It is that we arouse from average persons that we are endowed by our creator certain rights that are liberty and pursuit of happiness."
-On thinking big and addressing the future leaders, The Repository, 4/7/06.


"America can best deal with its millions of illegal immigrants by controlling its borders and ensuring new immigrants learn to be American. A guest worker program is needed to ensure immigrants pay taxes, get driver's licenses, buy auto insurance and abide by the law. You cannot allow people to start their career in America by breaking the law because you break down the entire system of respect for the law."
-On immigration reform, The Daily Oklahoman, 3/20/06.


"[Republicans] are seen by the country as being in charge of a government that can't function, we could lose control this fall. We reached our peak in August of '97 when we passed the balanced budget law. That was the moment when we had in fact changed the city as much as we were going to do in that way."
-On the upcoming elections in 2006, Knight Ridder, 4/7/06.

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