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Newt Gingrich

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Newt Gingrich is a prominent Republican politician from Georgia, best known for serving as the 50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. He played a significant role in the Republican Revolution of the 1990s, leading the party to a majority in the House for the first time in 40 years. Gingrich is recognized for his advocacy of conservative policies, including tax reform and welfare reform, and he was a key architect of the 'Contract with America,' which outlined a legislative agenda for the GOP in the 1994 midterm elections.

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Mar 23, 2015

We are losing to both the violent Jihad and to the cultural Jihad.

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Mar 23, 2015

Cultural jihad is winning when the administration censors training documents and lecturers according to sensitivity so that they cannot describe radical Islamists with any reference to the religious ideology which is the primary bond that…

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Mar 23, 2015

It is vital that the United States Congress undertake a thorough no-holds-barred review of the long global war in which we are now engaged with radical Islamists.

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Mar 23, 2015

They believe that Islamic law is superior to all other law, and that the rest of us ultimately have to basically yield to Islamic law.

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Mar 23, 2015

To start with that notion--I mean, this whole idiocy that you can't talk honestly about the nature of the people who are trying to kill you strikes me as utterly irrational.

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Mar 23, 2015

Congress ought to explore reestablishing the USIA as an independent agency.

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Mar 23, 2015

Cultural jihad is winning when the Department of Defense describes a terrorist attack at Fort Hood as workplace violence.

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Mar 23, 2015

Congress is going to have to reform those things because they are written into the law.

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Mar 23, 2015

I think the core thing to understand here, and this goes way beyond the current administration.

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Mar 23, 2015

We are going to have allies that make us uncomfortable.

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Mar 23, 2015

Cultural Jihad is winning when the President refers to 'random' killings in Paris when they were clearly the actions of Islamist terrorists.

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Mar 23, 2015

We need a similar dialogue, and it needs to transcend Democrat, Republican, and be an American dialogue.

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