Newt Gingrich: “We need aggressive leadership to change Washington, and that's essentially what I'm going to offer.”

If you are going to effect change, you better have public opinion with you.

If you really want to give people money to do nothing, a lot of people will learn to do nothing.

We should not interfere directly with home rule. Those of us who visit and who come here only for the purpose of representing our communities do not have the knowledge and do not have the right to micromanage the daily lives of the people…

I think we are totally unprepared in Washington for thinking through the implications of the largest debt holder in the world suddenly deliberately raising interest rates.