Newt Gingrich

We proved in Iowa, you can't survive just by being positive.

I think there's a huge gap between where Mitt Romney is and where I am and I think that's what we hope to communicate clearly in South Carolina.

I was having a great time just being totally positive and talking about big ideas and big solutions. I would be glad to go back to that. But I don't believe in unilateral disarmament.

About 20 minutes ago, I got a very nice phone call from Todd Palin, Sarah's husband, and he indicated that he was endorsing me today and was going to speak out on behalf of my candidacy.

I think it's already happening. Everywhere we go we have big crowds. Everywhere we go people are very, very positive, and I think we'll have a pretty good night tomorrow night.

I think this is still a very wide open primary.

We created 200,000 new jobs last month. Working with Ronald Reagan in the early '80s we had a very simple formula. Sound money, lower taxes, less red tape, more American energy, and actually praise people who create jobs.

And so I'm prepared if the NAACP invites me, I'll go to their convention and talk about why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps.

When a president decides to violate the spirit of the law, and to use the power of the presidency to reshape the government against the Congress, the Congress has an obligation to the people to defend our rights.

And so I'm prepared if the NAACP invites me, I will go to their convention and talk about why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps.

They would listen, and they really wanted to get to the truth, rather than the latest 30-second distortion.

We are not going to go out and run nasty ads. We're not going to go out and run 30-second gotcha.

But I do reserve the right to tell the truth. And if the truth seems negative, that may be more a comment on his record than it is on politics.

They would listen and they really wanted to get to the truth rather than the latest 30-second distortion. I would not have survived in this campaign against millions and millions of dollars of negative advertising, if it weren't for the…

Yes. What else could you say?

This is a man whose staff created the PAC. His millionaire friends fund the PAC. He pretends he has nothing to do with the PAC. It's baloney. He's not telling the American people the truth. This is like his pretense that he's a…

He's giving me no choice except to make clear the difference between the two of us because I would have been perfectly happy to have run a totally positive campaign and never mentioned it. He's made that impossible.

I don't think I'm going to win. I think if you look at the numbers, I think that volume of negativity has done enough damage.

We've gotten into a really sick system where people raise lots of money to hire very nasty people to run very vicious commercials. And it is sickening the whole process.

I wish frankly that the people running all these negative ads would adopt a very simple rule. If you won't show your ad to your grandchildren, don't run it.

If I have to choose between the next billion dollars going to Iran or going to Iowa, I would pick Iowa.

Sure. I think you'll see us Wednesday morning in New Hampshire being much clearer about the choice between a conservative and a moderate.

This is exciting, it's interesting, it's fascinating, but it's not at the center of my being. It's at the center of my duty.

And my whole emphasis on brain science comes in directly from dealing -- see, I'm going to be emotional of dealing with, you know, the real problems of real people in my family.

When asked yesterday if he would stay in the race if he finished fourth on Tuesday, he said he would.