Newt Gingrich: “I think in the average State which has compulsory auto insurance, 40 percent of the people do not in fact have auto…”

“I think in the average State which has compulsory auto insurance, 40 percent of the people do not in fact have auto insurance. I think that is a fact. I think in the District of Columbia, which theoretically has compulsory auto insurance, 40 percent do not have auto insurance. We have to quit lying to ourselves about the power of Government to play King Canute and tell the waves to quit coming in, because the States that have had compulsory auto insurance, their insurance costs have gone up and the number of people who fail to get insurance has gone up.”