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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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Feb 2, 2012

the then Speaker of the House of Representative, Newt Gingrich, disbanded that organization because in my opinion he didn't like what they were doing.

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Jan 30, 2012

We are going to contest every place, and we are going to win, and we will be in Tampa as the nominee in August.

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Jan 30, 2012

It is now clear that this will be a two-person race between the conservative leader, Newt Gingrich, and the Massachusetts moderate.

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Jan 30, 2012

He has no understanding of the importance of conscience and the important of religious liberty in this country!

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Jan 30, 2012

I don't believe the Republican Party is going to nominate a liberal.

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Jan 30, 2012

I'm not going to compete with Obama in singing because I'm not running for entertainer-in-chief. I'm running for president.

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Jan 30, 2012

We believe it is cheating our grandchildren to not insist on fundamental basic change in Washington, even if the establishment doesn't like it.

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Jan 30, 2012

We are going to contest every place and we are going to win, and we will be in Tampa as the nominee.

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Jan 26, 2012

I want to control the border, I want English to be the official language of government. I want us to have a lot of opportunities --

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Jan 26, 2012

I wish I would have protested when Brian Williams took them out of it. And I think he took him out of it because the immediate where is terrified that the audience is going to side with the candidate against the media which what they have…

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Jan 26, 2012

We discovered to our shock, that governor Romney owns shares in both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Governor Romney made a million dollars of selling some of that. To maybe governor Romney in the spirit of openness should tell us how much…

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Jan 26, 2012

I want to control the border. I want English to be the official language of government. I want us to have a lot of changes.

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Jan 26, 2012

I wish in retrospect I had protested when Brian Williams took them out of it, because I think it was wrong. And I think he took them out of it because the media is terrified that the audience is going to side with the candidates against…

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Jan 26, 2012

We discovered to our shock, Governor Romney owns shares of both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Governor Romney made a million dollars off of selling some of that.

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Jan 25, 2012

I think the grandmother is still going to be here. All I want to do is to allow the grandmother to be here legally.

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Jan 25, 2012

I do not want to be the country that having gotten to the moon first, turned around and said, it doesn't really matter, let the Chinese dominate space, what do we care? I think that is a path of national decline.

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Jan 25, 2012

All I want to do is to allow the grandmother to be here legally with some rights to have residency, but not citizenship, so that he or she can finish their life with dignity within the law.

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Jan 24, 2012

I have never done any lobbying. Every contract was written during the period when I was out of the office, specifically said I would do no lobbying, and I offered advice.

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Jan 24, 2012

I'm glad you asked that. I worked for the people. Of course, I work for the people.

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Jan 23, 2012

He doesn't seem to operate in the same planet you and I do. He has this -- a sort of a planet Obama somewhere out there.

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Jan 22, 2012

Mitt, what's the gross revenue of Bain in the years you were associated with it? What's the gross revenue?

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Jan 22, 2012

Let me be very clear. You used it on McCain and Huckabee, which is unfortunate. It's not going to work very well, because the American people see through it.

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