Top quotes by Newt Gingrich

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. Votes: 34

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. Votes: 26

If you go to the Lincoln Memorial, the Second Inaugural is probably the most religious speech ever given by an American President. In its 732 words, it references God 14 times and has two verses of the Bible. Votes: 24

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. Votes: 22

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. Votes: 20

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown. Votes: 19

I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird. Votes: 15

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending. Votes: 15

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country. Votes: 14

And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind. Votes: 14

I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama. Votes: 13

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. Votes: 12

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. Votes: 10

We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility. Votes: 9

Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration? Votes: 9

Only the elites despise earning money. Votes: 9

Indicate which principles you support regarding affirmative action and discrimination. 1. The federal government should discontinue affirmative action programs. 2. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the public sector. 3. The federal government should prosecute cases of discrimination in the private sector. Votes: 9

Lions cannot afford to hunt mice because they literally will starve to death, even if they catch them. Lions and all large carnivores have to hunt game large enough to justify the investment, so they have to hunt antelope and zebra. Why is this important? Because most senior executives are really big on chipmunks. Votes: 9

You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate. Votes: 8

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government. Votes: 7

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations. Votes: 7

I believe most Americans are pro-choice and anti-abortion. Votes: 7

I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job. Votes: 6

Give the park police more ammo. Votes: 6

We have got to get beyond this political bologna. I'm not allowed to say anything positive about Hillary Clinton because then I'm not a loyal Republican, and she's not allowed to say anything positive about me because then she's not a loyal Democrat. What a stupid way to run a country. Votes: 6

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. Votes: 5

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots. Votes: 4

I believe we will elect a new President in 2012. Votes: 3

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. Votes: 3

And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking. Votes: 2

Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it. Votes: 0

The Bush administration has now provided three case studies in arrogance, isolation and destructiveness: Michael Brown during Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Jerry Bremer in Baghdad and Secretary Paulson at Treasury. It is a tragic and very expensive legacy. No conservative and no Republican should doubt how much it has hurt our cause and our party. Votes: 0

Now, for Romney to believe that somebody's grandmother is going to be so cut off she is going to self deport... He certainly shows no concern for the humanity of people who are already here... I think you have to live in worlds of Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island accounts and automatic $20 million a year income with no work to have some fantasy this far from reality. Votes: 0

We're not going to beat Barack Obama with some guy who has Swiss bank accounts, Cayman Island accounts, owns shares of Goldman Sachs while it forecloses on Florida and is himself a stockholder in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while he tries to think the rest of us are too stupid to put the dots together to understand what this is all about.... People matter more than Wall Street. Votes: 0

That will change over time the entire flow of information and the entire quality of knowledge in the country and it will change the way people will try to play games in the legislative process. Votes: 0

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated. Votes: 0

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument. Votes: 0

I discourage a cult of personality. Votes: 0

When you have a 12-minute debate over whether lipstick on a pig refers to a demeaning comment about the vice presidential candidate, you know we're not talking about health reform, we're not talking about energy policy, we're not talking about balancing the budget. And you know, it's fairly stupid. Votes: 0

Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail. . . . President Reagan is clearly failing. Votes: 0

Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself. Votes: 0

An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job. Votes: 0

The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple innocent people in the name of letting hooligans loose. Votes: 0

Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood, Votes: 0

If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections. . . . Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes. Votes: 0

Maybe Governor Romney in the spirit of openness should tell us how much money he's made off of how many households that have been foreclosed by his investments. Votes: 0

Governor Romney may be running for CEO, I'm running for President Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You can be totally committed to conservative principles - to individual liberty, a market economy, entrepreneurship and lower taxes - and still be a Green Conservative. You can believe that with the sound use of science and technology and the right incentives to encourage entrepreneurs, conservatism can provide a better solution for the health of our planet than can liberalism. Votes: 0

Convert to IRA-based system. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid...These schools should get rid of unionized janitors, have one master janitor, pay local students to take care of the school. Votes: 0

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree. Votes: 0

I was attacked the other night for being grandiose. I would just want you to note: Lincoln standing at Council Bluffs was grandiose. The Wright Brothers standing at Kitty Hawk were grandiose. John F. Kennedy was grandiose. I accept the charge that I am grandiose and that Americans are instinctively grandiose, Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Oh, sure... I was trying to make to make a point that we shouldn't be afraid to debate the left, even on the environment. That was obviously misconstrued, and that's one of the things I probably won't do again Votes: 0

I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps. Votes: 0

More people are on food stamps today because of Obamas policies than ever in history. I would like to be the best paycheck president in American history. ... And so Im prepared if the NAACP invites me, Ill go to their convention and talk about why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps. Votes: 0

We used to be a serious country. When we got attacked at Pearl Harbor, we took on Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. We beat all three in less than four years. We're about to enter the seventh year of this phony war against ... [terrorist groups], and we're losing. Votes: 0

The secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did. Votes: 0

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. Votes: 0

If you've been here 15 years and you've got three kids and grandkids and you've been paying taxes and obeying the law, you belong to a local church, I don't think we're going to separate you from your family, uproot you forcefully and kick you out. Votes: 0

We should end the Environmental Protection Agency's war against American oil and gas. Votes: 0

What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can't help it if liberal books don't sell. Votes: 0

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works, Votes: 0

As [House] speaker, I came back, working with President Bill Clinton. We passed a very Reagan-like program: less regulation, lower taxes. Unemployment dropped to 4.2 percent. We created 11 million jobs. Votes: 0

I love the environment, but I'm cheap on the environment Votes: 0

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated. Votes: 0

Public Broadcasting is a sandbox for the rich. The NEA and the HEH are simply enclaves of the left using your money to propagandize your children against your values. Votes: 0

I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America. Votes: 0

The most important social welfare program in America is a job. Votes: 0

The mother killing her two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we have to have change. I think people want to change and the only way you get change is to vote Republican. Votes: 0

If we'd had government on [today's] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that railroads could not travel faster than a horse because it would be an unfair competitive advantage. Votes: 0

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural? Votes: 0

Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a process of enforced boredom and age segregation that has produced one of the most destructive social arrangements in human history: consigning 13-year-old males to learning from 15-year-old males. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians? Votes: 0

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century. Votes: 0

Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union. Votes: 0

You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide. Votes: 0

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something. Votes: 0

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history. Votes: 0

[C]entralized, health dictatorship. Votes: 0

[Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay." He's "given no evidence in his years in Massachusetts of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure. Votes: 0

[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism. Votes: 0

[The Republicans] offer . . . a detailed agenda for national renewal. . . . [On] reducing illegitimacy . . . the state will use . . . funds for programs to reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies, to promote adoption, to establish and operate children's group homes, to establish and operate residential group homes for unwed mothers, or for any purpose the state deems appropriate. None of the taxpayer funds may be used for abortion services or abortion counseling. Votes: 0

1994 GOP victory destroyed bipartisanship. Votes: 0

1995 government shutdown from GOP underestimating Clinton. Votes: 0

ACLU has become eccentric and destructive. Votes: 0

All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care. Votes: 0

America is a country in which 75 percent of the people believe there's widespread corruption. We have got to go back to re-establishing a sense of trust. That has to be an assignment Trump takes personally. And that has to be more than trust me because trust me never works in the long run as a model. It's just - it's not possible. Votes: 0

America is an enormous country with enormous resources. The basic American spirit creates the Wright Brothers and Henry Ford and Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. Once we start rolling, we're pretty formidable. And the incompetence of the government is so massive that even a moderately good executive could regain much ground pretty rapidly. Donald Trump is a very good executive. Votes: 0

America is fed up with political correctness, and it is fed up with government that doesn't work. It's fed up with weakness being interpreted as wisdom. Votes: 0

America is not a country that wanders around trusting people with power. This is a country that wants accountability. Votes: 0

Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of common sense that is pretty hard to deal with. Votes: 0

Anyone who would understand the Reagan victory of 1980 and the movement that eliminated the Soviet Union and revitalized America must read-indeed must study-Craig Shirley's brilliant, comprehensive work. Votes: 0

As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant. My friends will write histories that glorify me and prove I was more important than I was. And two generations or three from now, some serious sober historian will write a history that sort of implies I was whoever I was. Votes: 0

As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, America gave him the White House based on the same credentials. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers. Votes: 0

Baby Boomers becoming Republicans while Dems become outdated. Votes: 0

Being Americans, we prosecute wars to win them, not to have reasonable response, not to have appropriate levels of retaliation. Our theory is you start bombing our cities; we're going to defeat you and make it impossible. Votes: 0

Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection. Votes: 0

Bowing to the Saudi king is not an energy policy. Votes: 0

By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American. Votes: 0

Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? The fact is, you ran in '94 and lost. That's why you weren't serving in the Senate with Rick Santorum. The fact is, you had a very bad re-election rating, you dropped out of office, you had been out of state for something like 200 days preparing to run for president. You didn't have this interlude of citizenship while you thought about what you do. You were running for president while you were governor. Votes: 0

Christmas represents love and mercy. It was ushered in by the star of hope and remains forever consecrated by the sacrifice of the cross. Christmas holds its place in the hearts of men because they know that love is the greatest thing in the world. Christmas is celebrated in the true spirit only by those who make some sacrifice for the benefit of their fellow men. Votes: 0

Criminals thrive on society's understanding. Votes: 0

Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat. Votes: 0

Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security. Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Donald Trump has to understand and his family has to understand that there is a public interest which transcends them. Votes: 0

Donald Trump is a very action-oriented person. Votes: 0

Donald Trump is going to win. Donald Trump is going to win because in the end, the country is not going to reward big banks and big unions and big bureaucracies and big donors and big corruption by voting for a big liar. Votes: 0

Donald Trump is my leader. And if he decides to drop the swamp and the alligator, I will drop the swamp and the alligator. Votes: 0

Donald Trump is not an immigrant basher. His mother was a legal immigrant. His wife is a legal immigrant. He employs legal immigrants. He just likes his immigrants to be legal. Votes: 0

Donald Trump is the one who said if somebody really wants an arms race, we'll drown him. Votes: 0

Donald Trump really is who he is, and I think, for example, he'll probably tweet his entire life - and that's a fact. I just hope people get over it. Votes: 0

Donald Trump was elected by people who believe Washington has too much power. Votes: 0

Donald Trump's not a sexual predator. Votes: 0

Drill here, drill now, pay less. Votes: 0

EITC is an invitation to fraud. Votes: 0

Elected on anti-corruption platform in 1978. Votes: 0

Established systems are inherently hostile to change. Votes: 0

Even if Iraq IS a civil war, people have won civil wars. Votes: 0

Every president developed his own style. You know that we don't recruit them to a certain standard. Votes: 0

Focus on prevention; would save $14B with diabetes. Votes: 0

For most of the rise of modern medicine, the brain was a really unknown zone and was all based in guesswork. Well, that's all changing. And the opioid recovery is a very good example of the scale of change we're seeing. Votes: 0

For the system of government you fashioned including the very principles on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly, if inadvertently, oppressive and dangerous to our welfare. It must be radically changed and a new system of government invented, a democracy for the 21st century. For this wisdom, above all, I thank Mr. Jefferson who helped create the system that served us so well for so long, and that now must, in its turn, die and be replaced. Votes: 0

Gingrich - Primary mission, Advocate of civilization, Definer of civilization, Teacher of the rules of civilization, Leader of the civilizing forces. Votes: 0

Gingrich first backed the concept in 1993, "I am for people, individuals "” exactly like automobile insurance "” individuals having health insurance and being required to have health insurance, Votes: 0

Go get a job after you take a bath. Votes: 0

GOP represents people, but Dems communicate better. Votes: 0

Government should take management lesson from private sector. Votes: 0

Heterosexual marriage is the heart of our civilization. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton has built a huge machine. Donald Trump's asset is people on Facebook and twitter. He can communicate with them eight or 10 times a day with no money. This is a different world. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton is lying again and again. Votes: 0

How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane. Votes: 0

I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [his grandchildren are] my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American. Votes: 0

I am excited about the next generation of leaders. I have a hunch there will be a whole group of people who will decide they will stand up; I know people 15 years old asking me how to get into politics. So we will have a steady stream of new blood. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who have been here a quarter century, who have children and grandchildren, who are members of the community, who may have done something 25 years ago, separate them from their families, and expel them. Votes: 0

I don't think we have conclusive proof that humans are at the center of [global warming] Votes: 0

I don't care who you are, I care who you want to be. Votes: 0

I don't understand why they call it public broadcasting. As far as I am concerned, there's nothing public about it; it's an elitist enterprise. 'Rush Limbaugh' is public broadcasting. Votes: 0

I expect that Trump believes we do not have an obligation to have a Cold War with Russia, but that he is very cautious. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have six times as many Twitter followers as all the other candidates combined, but it didn't count because if it counted I'd still be a candidate; since I can't be a candidate that can't count. Votes: 0

I love the environment, but I'm cheap on the environment. Votes: 0

I read Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them and I found frightening pieces that related to"¦my own life. Votes: 0

I suspect that Donald Trump is going to be very tough with those countries that don't spend at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. He will ask them why should we allow a free-ride policy. Votes: 0

I think Donald Trump is very, very cautious about nuclear weapons, and he's seriously concerned. And this might be one of the reasons he wants to deal with Putin carefully, because he's aware of how many nuclear weapons Putin has, and that Russian doctrine is much more open about using nuclear weapons than is American doctrine. Votes: 0

I think Donald Trump needs to set a direction that allows people who are deeply opposed to Obamacare to realize it's gradually going to be reformed and rethought. Votes: 0

I think Donald Trump thinks of Putin as being a strong person, and I think he thinks of himself as being a very strong person. But I don't think in any way that he thinks of the Putin government as a desirable model. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there's a package there that's very, very good, Votes: 0

I think Jefferson and George Washington would strongly discourage you from growing marijuana, and their tactics to stop you would be more violent than they would be today. Votes: 0

I think Putin has already gotten used to the idea of Obama and his secretary of state, John Kerry, making noise - it just doesn't seem to impress Moscow at all. Votes: 0

I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think the very concept of an elite commission deciding for the American people who deserves to be heard is profoundly wrong. Votes: 0

I think there's no question that everything possible is being done to stop Donald Trump and you're seeing a case study in how hard it is to be outsider and the double standard of the national media, particularly if you're a conservative outsider. Votes: 0

I think we've had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs, and who were historically part of the Arab community. Votes: 0

I want to make sure every House Republican is protected from some kind of dishonest Democratic ad. So let me say on the record, any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood. Votes: 0

I want to say unequivocally that while I cherish every person who comes from anywhere, who comes here legally and seeks to pursue happiness, and I hope all of them decide to stay and become American citizens, but I want them to become American. And part of becoming American involved English. It is vital historically to assert and establish that English is the common language at the heart of our civilization. Votes: 0

I will not rest until I have transformed the landscape of American politics. Votes: 0

I would just say that if Governor Romney would like to give back all the money he's earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years at Bain that I would be glad to then listen to him. I'll bet you $10, not $10,000, that he won't take the offer. Votes: 0

If a bunch of Republicans are too stiff- necked, too proud, or in some cases too committed to the old order, after the election, I think they're going to be very sobered by their position... Votes: 0

If I can get you to a point where you can lead a full life, sustain a job, earn money for your family - you can be completely engaged as a citizen. Votes: 0

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now. Votes: 0

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'. Votes: 0

If Trump remains honest and seems like a person who's authentic, he's going to go a long way. Votes: 0

If under the pressure of Washington Donald Trump starts dissembling and saying things that aren't true, he'll decay as much as Obama did well on that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you have depression, you are dramatically more likely to be sick. Now to say you don't need to treat depression because it's not a medical reality - when in fact it clearly affects your interaction with the entire world around you - is just frankly reactionary. Votes: 0

If you import a commercial quantity of illegal drugs"¦ it is because you have made the personal decision that you are prepared to get rich by destroying our children. I have made the decision that I love our children enough that we will kill you if you do this. Votes: 0

If you want to see why President Obama is worried this November, watch The Hope and the Change. Votes: 0

If you're not brave, you're not going to be free. Votes: 0

I'm a little tired of people who have very big moral positions and very small power in reality. Votes: 0

I'm against ObamaCare, which is imposing radical change, and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change.... I don't think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering... I don't think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate. Votes: 0

I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee. Votes: 0

I'm moderately optimistic. We Americans are an enormous country with more than 300 million people so there's reason for optimism. Votes: 0

I'm old enough, I remember when Richard Nixon had the election stolen in 1960. And no serious historian doubts that Illinois and Texas were stolen. Votes: 0

I'm opposed to giving people money for doing nothing. Votes: 0

In the end, the country is going the say, You know, whatever [Donald] Trump's weaknesses may be, he's a sincere guy trying very hard to get this country back on the right track. Votes: 0

Iran - the world's leading sponsor of terrorism - is close to having nuclear weapons. Votes: 0

Is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money? Votes: 0

It doesn't matter what I do. People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live. Votes: 0

It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't read. Votes: 0

It is perfectly American to be wrong. Votes: 0

It is time to know more about would-be terrorists, to profile for terrorists and to actively discriminate based on suspicious terrorist information. Votes: 0

It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003. We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it. Votes: 0

It's a normal way of doing business. Votes: 0

It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us. Votes: 0

Leadership matters and solving things before a crisis is important. Votes: 0

Liberals exploit weakness; conservatives offer strength. Votes: 0

Maybe we need a tax credit for the poorest Americans to buy a laptop. Now, maybe that's wrong, maybe that's expensive, maybe we can't do it, but I'll tell you, any signal that we can send to the poorest Americans that says, 'We're going into a 21st century, third-wave information age, and so are you, and we want to carry you with us.' Votes: 0

Military tribunals to lock people up the way Lincoln did. Votes: 0

Money really, really matters. Votes: 0

My fine friends who are perfectionists, each in their own world where they are petty dictators, could write a perfect bill. Those of us who have grown up and matured...understand that we have to work together on the big issues. Votes: 0

My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally. Votes: 0

My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results. Votes: 0

NATO is an alliance, so all parts of the alliance have to be capable. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds. Votes: 0

Nothing gets done (in Congress) unless it's bipartisan. And the reason that matters is that it's a function of reality. Votes: 0

Now you have to ask a question - is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money? Or is that in fact somehow a little bit of a flawed system? And so I do draw distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods and then leaving a factory that should be there. Votes: 0

Now, I know among the politically correct, you're not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable. Votes: 0

Now, tell me how you're going to teach the history of Jefferson, and cut out all those quotes and cut out all these facts, and cut out the key line of the Declaration of Independence: We are endowed by our Creator. I mean you have to have a conscious deliberate censorship of America, which is what the left and the courts and the classrooms has had for 40 years. Votes: 0

Now, we don't get rid of it in round one because we don't think that that's politically smart, and we don't think that's the right way to go through a transition. But we believe it's going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it - voluntarily. Votes: 0

Oh, he was asking to have an open marriage and I refused. Votes: 0

On the battlefield of ideas, winning requires moving toward the sound of the guns. Votes: 0

Ongoing battle against liberals nationalizing healthcare. Votes: 0

Opposing taxes is a key conservative value. Votes: 0

Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history. Votes: 0

our rights come from our Creator and it is impossible to define America if you do not talk in public about where your rights come from. Votes: 0

Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them. Votes: 0

People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz. Votes: 0

Personal responsibility extends to the purchase of health insurance. Citizens should not be able to cheat their neighbors by not buying insurance, particularly when they can afford it, and expect others to pay for their care when they need it. Votes: 0

Polls are biased left; GOP wins on the issues. Votes: 0

President Obama is a president so weak that he makes Jimmy Carter look strong. Votes: 0

Press plays "gotcha"; limit press briefings. Votes: 0

Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools. Votes: 0

Reagan believed the power of truth restated the world and re framed the world. I am a Reaganite. I'm proud to be a Reaganite. I will tell the truth, even if it's at the risk of causing some confusion sometimes with the timid. Votes: 0

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash' unless it's illegal. Votes: 0

Reintegrating the brain into the rest of the body is absolutely essential to having the kind of long-term health and substantially lower cost [of care] than if you're going to treat them separately. Votes: 0

Remember, most of the bureaucrats voted for Hillary Clinton. Most of the bureaucrats deeply dislike what Trump is trying to accomplish, and most of the bureaucrats think they can't be fired, so they can outlast you. Votes: 0

Rethink every aspect of bureaucracy. Votes: 0

Russia is modernizing its nuclear systems. They're moving toward more effective tactical nuclear systems. They're moving toward delivery systems designed to evade anti-ballistic missile defenses. The Russians are investing, by the way, in robotic weapons, including a potential robotic tank. Their investment in new technology, I suspect, outweighs all of the European defense research and development spending combined. Votes: 0

See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn't change, only the morality"¦ That's why you get to go to jail and I don't. Votes: 0

Show true cost of FICA-double what is shown on paychecks. Votes: 0

So when people tell you, oh, you can't have the Ten Commandments on public property, they're just wrong. It's historically false. It's not true. Now, you can decide to invent a new America in which you shouldn't say "one nation under God" as part of the pledge because, after all, you will offend three atheists. But that's not the America you inherited. That's a different country. And I think it's a weaker country and I think it's a country that has no roots in terms of where its rights come from. Votes: 0

So when you hear about Hillary's [Clinton] dishonesty, or the emails, or taking millions from the Saudis and other Middle Eastern dictatorships - remember, this is not about politics. Votes: 0

Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth. These people are terrorists. Votes: 0

Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation's global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures. Votes: 0

Support charters; insist on change for failing schools. Votes: 0

That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior....I think Obama gets up every morning with a worldview that is fundamentally wrong about reality...If you look at the continuous denial of reality, there has got to be a point where someone stands up and says that this is just factually insane. Votes: 0

The ACLU is an organization with a long and distinguished history of fighting to protect freedom of speech. On the other hand, in recent years, it has carried its mandate to ever more eccentric and often highly destructive lengths. While is may have been perfectly honorable for Dukakis to belong to the ACLU, it was equally legitimate for Bush to attack him for it. And with what enormous relish he did the job! Votes: 0

The America in which we grew up is vastly different from the America the secular-socialist Left want to create. And that's why saving America is the fundamental challenge of our time. The secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did. Votes: 0

The American challenge in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution, Votes: 0

The Big Trump is a historic figure. The Big Trump beat 16 other people for the nomination. The Big Trump is creating issues that make the establishment very uncomfortable. The Little Trump frankly gets out - is stupid. I mean, that comment just then is dumb. And I don't defend him when he wanders off; I've told him over and over. Votes: 0

The Congress is pretty powerful if it wants to be. Votes: 0

The Constitution gives the president of the United States an extraordinarily wide grant of authority to use the power of the pardon. Votes: 0

The evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading of the atmosphere. Votes: 0

The fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn't want to talk about ideology because they don't want to explain publicly what they're really doing. Votes: 0

The folks who want to build this mosque, who are really radical Islamists, who want to triumphfully prove they can build a mosque next to a place where 3,000 Americans were killed by radical Islamists. Those folks don't have any interest in reaching out to the community. They're trying to make a case about supremacy... This happens all the time in America. 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. Votes: 0

The goal that the Obama team has is to fundamentally replace the historic America of self-reliance, independence, the work ethic, the people who go out and achieve because they spend their lifetime doing the right things. And they want to replace it with a politician-dominated redistributionist bureaucracy. Which in the essence would mean the end of America as it has been for the last 400 years. Votes: 0

The greatest leaders in fighting for an integrated America in the twentieth century were in the Democratic Party. The fact is, it was the liberal wing of the Democratic Party that ended segregation. The fact is that it was Franklin Delano Roosevelt who gave hope to a nation that was in despair and could have slid into dictatorship. And the fact is, every Republican has much to learn from studying what the Democrats did right. Votes: 0

The idea that the United States can't guard its own border is silly. It's a sign that were not serious about this...people who legally shouldn't be here. When the state is forced to take care of them - for example, if they have an illegal alien in their prison - the federal government should pay for it. If Washington has to pay for it, Washington's going to more rapidly understand why we have to take some necessary steps. Votes: 0

The key is to remember there is a tomorrow morning. The dance will continue. Votes: 0

The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed. Votes: 0

The most powerful force changing our society is the information revolution. Votes: 0

The national media are doing everything they can to suppress bad news about Hillary Clinton and everything they can to maximize bad news about Donald Trump. Votes: 0

The pollsters who have telephoners are going to consistently get a lower vote for [Donald] Trump because the media has attacked him so savagely and so dishonestly that a substantial number of people will not say they're for Trump. Votes: 0

The problem isn't too little money in political campaigns, but not enough. Votes: 0

The Republican brand has been so badly damaged that if Republicans try to run an anti-Obama, anti-Rev. Wright or, if Sen. Clinton wins, anti-Clinton campaign, they are simply going to fail. This model has already been tested with disastrous results. Votes: 0

The terrorism danger to the United States is even worse than September 11th, when 19 hijackers murdered almost 3,000 Americans. Votes: 0

The U.S. was founded by a group of political leaders who signed a document which says, "We are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights." That means that all of your political rights come from God and you then loan some of your power to the State which is why the Constitution begins, "We, the People of the United States.@ Votes: 0

The Washington bureaucracy is too arrogant and imperial. Votes: 0

There are whole states where people [with addiction or mental health issues] can't get to a doctor. If that were true of pancreatic cancer, if that were true of heart disease, if that were true of diabetes, we'd all understand that it made no sense at all. And yet we somehow approach mental health from a very different standard. Votes: 0

There is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us. Votes: 0

There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia, Votes: 0

There was an analyst who came out the other day who's had a long track record of projecting presidential campaigns based on the economy and other kind of factors. And he said if [Donald] Trump stays about where he is right now, he'll win at about 51 or 52 percent. If Trump actually gets his act together in a disciplined way, he could win by as much as 66 percent. Votes: 0

There's a large part of me that's four years old. I wake up in the morning and I know that somewhere there's a cookie. I don't know where it is but I know it's mine and I have to go find it. That's how I live my life. My life is amazingly filled with fun. Votes: 0

There's a Big Trump and there's a Little Trump. Votes: 0

There's a guy in California who was voting 24 years after he died. I mean, so to suggest to us that people who are concerned about honest elections are somehow nutty, I think, is a mistake. Votes: 0

There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate. Votes: 0

This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment, but I think that the national security threat of losing an American city to a nuclear weapon, or losing several million Americans to a biological attack is so real that we need to proactively, now, develop the appropriate rules of engagement, Votes: 0

This is one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration. The more successful they've been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof there is that we're in danger"¦. It's almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us. Votes: 0

Those of us who believe in free markets and those of us who believe that in fact the whole goal of investment is entrepreneurship and job creation, we find it pretty hard to justify rich people figuring out clever legal ways to loot a company, leaving behind 1,700 families without a job. Votes: 0

To have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think. Votes: 0

To suggest that it's OK to assassinate a president, I think is a felony. And I think that it should be. Votes: 0

To the degree I was too brash, Too self-confident or too pushy, I apologize. Votes: 0

Under our [constitutional system] - either we're going to have to rethink our Constitution, or we're going to have to rethink our process of decision-making. Votes: 0

We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks. Votes: 0

We do agree that our country must take action to address climate change. Votes: 0

We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point? Votes: 0

We have a choice between those who are failing to deliver and those who are unthinkable ... Neither party currently is where the country is. Votes: 0

We have to frankly break the back of the secular-socialist machine, elect people committed to representing the American people, and then methodically rip the system apart. Votes: 0

We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it. Votes: 0

We have to rethink, how do we get a complete 360-degree understanding of the patient? Votes: 0

We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair. Votes: 0

We need a dramatically expanded use of statecraft. Votes: 0

We need to quit subsidizing the costs for illegal immigrants' residency in America immediately. How long will we allow them to siphon millions upon millions from honest taxpaying Americans by supporting their health care, welfare, education and criminal expenses? Votes: 0

Well, I think that there's a clear record, I worked with Ronald Reagan in the early '80s and his recovery program translated into today's population of about 25 million new jobs in a seven-year period. As Speaker of the House, I worked with President Clinton and he followed with a very similar plan. And we ended up with about 11 million new jobs in a four-year period. Votes: 0

We've had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, and were historically part of the Arab community. And they had a chance to go many places. And for a variety of political reasons we have sustained this war against Israel now since the 1940's, and I think it's tragic, Votes: 0

What I said was: We want everybody to learn English because we don't want - I didn't use the word 'Spanish.' Votes: 0

What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]? That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior. Votes: 0

What's the job of the candidate in this world? The job of the candidate is to raise the money to hire the consultants to do the focus groups to figure out the 30-second answers to be memorized by the candidate. This is stunningly dangerous. Votes: 0

When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions. Votes: 0

When we have 13,000 Americans living on the moon, they can petition to become a state, Votes: 0

When we have laws that compartmentalize medical information, and when we have paper systems that compartmentalize medical information, you sometimes have a doctor who understands his specialty and is terrific on your kidneys, but he doesn't understand the totality of who you are. Votes: 0

When you do a computerized poll, where people are comfortable, [Donald Trump] vote goes up very dramatically. And I think people don't realize the effort by the elite media, the totally dishonest effort to submerge him, has had an effect. Votes: 0

With Bill Clinton, there were things I had to have and things I couldn't have. Clinton had things he had to have and things he couldn't have. And there was space in the middle where you could have a deal. Votes: 0

Would you pick me? I am so much my own agent, it would be - its inconceivable. Votes: 0

You cannot compare America and Russia. Votes: 0

You can't flip-flop and be commander-in-chief. Votes: 0

You can't talk about attacking or assassinating the President of the United States and you shouldn't be able to. Votes: 0

You can't trust anybody with power. Votes: 0

You know, presidents have to be disciplined, and in that sense Hillary Clinton is probably better trained to be president, just because she's the most corrupt person to ever get the nomination of a major party. Votes: 0

You know, you try to move the Brussels bureaucracy, and unless you have some capacity to really break it, you can't move it. It just sits there and stares at you. Votes: 0

You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had, and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week. I read Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them and I found frightening pieces that related to...my own life. Votes: 0

The sacrament of marriage is based on a man and woman. Votes: 0

The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and does not believe in data that it has not internally generated. Votes: 0

It is false to suggest that Thomas Jefferson or any other Founding Father believed in a legal barrier to God in the public square. Votes: 0

The Growth and Opportunity Project is the most successful reexamination of a national party in modern times. Te disciplined focus of Chairman Reince Priebus has turned its suggestions into realities that are changing the political setting of elections. No one should underestimate the boldness of these changes and the courage they took. Votes: 0

Input of public judgement for any major tax reform. Votes: 0

You want to be a country that creates food stamps? In which case, frankly, Obama is an enormous success the most successful food stamp president in American history. Or do you want to be a country that creates jobs? Votes: 0