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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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Aug 7, 2012

I believe absolutely that this -- the Obama administration is filled with people who do not believe in the work requirement.

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Aug 7, 2012

Sure. The question you have to ask yourself is, given the track record of this particular secretary of Health and Human Services, given the general -- somewhere between liberalism and radicalism of the Obama appointees...

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Aug 7, 2012

I think on the hard left, there's an unending desire to create a dependent America. It's not just that Obama's a radical, but the people he appoints are even more radical.

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Aug 7, 2012

Well, given that this is an administration which has maximized the increase in dependency, maximized the number of people on food stamps, maximized the effort to get people to rely on the government, there's also no evidence that once the…

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Aug 7, 2012

I think on the hard left there's an unending desire to create a dependent America. It's not just that Obama is a radical but the people he appoints are even more radical.

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Aug 7, 2012

I would say to you under Obama's ideology it is absolutely true that he would be comfortable sending a lot of people checks for doing nothing.

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Jul 29, 2012

I think all they asked for was an investigation. Who's offering this advice to Secretary Clinton? I think it's totally legitimate to ask that question.

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Jul 29, 2012

The level of self-deception necessary to misunderstand the Muslim Brotherhood verges on psychosis.

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May 30, 2012

I think we can win this election so handily by sticking to the facts. And, again, the case against Obama is so decisive, particularly on the economy, on the price of gasoline, on the size of the deficits, that I think we don't have to…

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May 30, 2012

I think it's very important to recognize how many of Obama's so-called investments in the last three years are now either going broke, on the edge of going broke, losing money.

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May 30, 2012

If we were at 4.7 percent unemployment right now, 5.5 million Americans would be at work, who, under Obama's policies, are currently unemployed.

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May 30, 2012

When you look at the nation, and you look at what's at stake, there's an enormous difference between where Governor Romney would take us and where the president is taking us.

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