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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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Dec 4, 2011

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have -- they have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no…

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Dec 1, 2011

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working, and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of, 'I…

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Nov 21, 2011

I think I can't imagine any serious person who can walk down the street, see somebody they have known for 20 years, and say, you're leaving your family, you're leaving your church, you're leaving your the you have been in now for 20 or 25…

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Nov 21, 2011

I hope I'm one of the two, but I'm absolutely certain the other one will be Mitt Romney.

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Nov 21, 2011

I do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who have been here a quarter century, who have children and grandchildren, who are members of the community, who may have done something 25 years ago, separate…

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Nov 21, 2011

I want to say 'Go home' to lots of people. I want to create a border that's controlled. I want a guest-worker program outsourced to American Express or Visa or MasterCard. I want English as the official language of government.

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Nov 21, 2011

All sources, energy program in the United States, designed once again to create a surplus of energy here so we can say to the Europeans, pretty cheerfully, all of the various sources of oil we have in the United States we could literally…

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Nov 21, 2011

If you're trying to find somebody who may have a nuclear weapon that they are trying to bring into an American city, I think you want to use every tool that you can possibly use to gather the intelligence.

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Nov 21, 2011

Sure. I think it makes it -- it's not just the Hispanic community, but we have people who come to America from the whole planet.

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Nov 21, 2011

If you have been here 25 years, and your kids were raised here, you go to a church, you got to find a way to stay here legally.

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Nov 15, 2011

I was approached for strategic advice. I was glad to offer strategic advice. And we did it for a number of companies. The Gingrich Group is very successful.

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Nov 15, 2011

on the defense about his former relationship with mortgage giant Freddie Mac. He criticized Democrats from taking money from the company. Freddie Mac paid him close to $2 million.

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Nov 15, 2011

I'm very saddened that John McCain hasn't had the nerve and the coherence to go nose to nose with Obama and force Obama to give back the money that he's taken from Fannie Mac and -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, forced him to fire Franklin…

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Nov 1, 2011

He's been jumping in the polls, three percent a couple of months ago. Now he's up to 10 percent. We're going to talk about his plan to fix the American economy and also he's going to weigh in on whether another campaign really leaked these…

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Sep 11, 2011

I think trying to raise the tax on working Americans in the middle of the Obama depression is a destructive policy.

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Sep 11, 2011

I'm not particularly worried about Governor Perry and Governor Romney frightening the American people when President Obama scares them every single day.

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Sep 7, 2011

This is a president so committed to class warfare and so committed bureaucratic socialism that he can't possibly be effective in jobs.

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Sep 6, 2011

The fact that President Obama doesn't come to the Reagan Library to try to figure out how to create jobs... tells you that this is a president so committed to class warfare and so committed to bureaucratic socialism that he can't possibly…

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Aug 11, 2011

I'd love to see the rest of tonight's debate asking us about what we would do to lead an America whose president has failed to lead instead of playing Mickey Mouse games.

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