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Newt Gingrich

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NEWT GINGRICH Newt Gingrich has certainly seen his own empire rise - and fall.
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself.
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JARVIS STEWART Newt Gingrich would cream Barack Obama in a debate.
MONICA CROWLEY Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich supported the Wall Street bailout.
MICHELE BACHMANN Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop?
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BILL MAHER As Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich dedicated much of his energy to improving the lives of the ch...
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MICHAEL MORIARTY By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
BARBARA AMIEL The Soviet Union is an Evil Empire, and Soviet communism is the focus of evil in the modern world
RONALD REAGAN I will ensure the conservative legacy and leadership of Tom Price, Johnny Isakson, and Newt Gingrich...
KAREN HANDEL Take my word for it as the whip in the House that we have plenty of votes to re-elect Newt Gingrich,...
TOM DELAY I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally...
RICK PERRY [House Speaker Newt Gingrich said,] I am glad now that the election is over to see that the presiden...
NEWT GINGRICH I think former President Clinton and even Newt Gingrich have said it was a mistake to repeal Glass S...
MARTIN O'MALLEY Every day I turn on my television set and I see Newt Gingrich on television, I rejoice.
MARTIN FROST When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the Amer...
J. C. WATTS Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporter...
BARNEY FRANK This isn't about more power for the president. It's about more votes for Newt Gingrich, and that's t...
LLOYD DOGGETT That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive a...
HENRY ROLLINS ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 9/11 terrorists had fake IDs, yet they still ...
BRUCE SCHNEIER So isn't it ironic that Newt Gingrich is attempting to put his ethic problems behind him with a plan...
DAVID BONIOR Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he'...
JAMES MCBRIDE The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE We cannot afford to be in any way complacent. The fact that there are human cases of bird flu being ...
DR. DAVID NABARRO What the president did was wrong; he should be censured, but not impeached. Rick White and Newt Ging...
JAY INSLEE I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or ...
BOB DOLE Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich were shaking hands congratulating themselves on the introduction of an...
JUDY CARTER No chronology of Soviet atrocities can convey the crushing of the human spirit under Lenin and his s...
MICHAEL JOHNS The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judg...
EDNITA NAZARIO The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like...
MOBY We are the majority -- have been the majority for the last four years, thanks to my friend Newt Ging...
BOB LIVINGSTON Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile abou...
MAURICE SENDAK I kissed her cheek then, because I feared to do it and though commonsense may occasionally bind me, ...
MARK LAWRENCE They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
MARK LAWRENCE A Dark time comes.
My time.
If it offends you.
Stop Me.
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CRAIG SHIRLEY This is an old story that keeps repeating: The people who are way out there and pushing the limits o...
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TEKOA MANNING He said ... Medicare was the worst federal program ever, ... Howard, you were agreeing with the very...
DICK GEPHARDT The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD What will make you a star is in you
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PATTI DAVIS Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a dist...
PETE DU PONT The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Caucuses are different than primaries, and winner-take-all primaries are how Mitt Romney eventually ...
KELLYANNE CONWAY People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.
ROB REINER The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty ...
EVELYN WAUGH If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power real...
ANDREI PLATONOV After the Republicans took control of Congress in '94 and Newt Gingrich and company came to town, th...
LARRY MAKINSON Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind o...
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER You can miss an experience by obsessing over how to contain it.
GINA GREENLEE The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benef...
BARBARA AMIEL We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretense of understanding. We paper over the voids ...
MARK LAWRENCE We still need to decide what we can afford. Where do we draw the line?
DOUG JACKSON Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefe...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of ever...
ANDREW YOUNG Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. ...
BARBARA AMIEL Reagan was president and had Democrats control the House and Senate, and they reformed the tax code....
KEVIN MCCARTHY I'm delighted to make as many people feel ashamed as possible. There's probably a site like ...
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ED GRAHAM Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT There's a huge cost in being bipartisan, a tradition started by Newt Gingrich when he took over ...
GWEN MOORE We often gain awareness through a baseline comparison between now and next.
SHARON WEIL As a jobbing actor, you can't afford to be choosy; if you're typed, you're generally wor...
ROBERT ENGLUND We're fairly certain we could put it together if we needed to right now. The question is, do we need...
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THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK We know as a fact that No. 61 obtained a fake federal agent's ID to commit felonious crimes.
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