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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.

Jan 9, 2013

I think we should look at all these things, but, again, I would just suggest to you that in fact almost none of the killings in Chicago, the deadliest place in America, almost none of those killings involved any kind of exotic weapon.

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Jan 9, 2013

I would be intrigued to have Vice President Biden follow your leadership, go to Chicago, and before he explains to the rest of us the new rules we need to have, look at the rules that don't work.

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Jan 9, 2013

If they're within the law and it's an appropriate executive order, then I think the president has every right to do it. If it's not in current law, then he can't do it by executive order and the Congress would have to, I think, block him…

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Jan 9, 2013

I would much rather that she had been armed and that he had been killed instead of her, and that may sound like a harsh judgment, but I do agree that if you're faced with somebody who is homicidal and evil, who is trying to do something…

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Jan 9, 2013

Maybe we ought to have some common sense. Let's talk about the facts. I would be very willing to be part of a group to talk about the facts and then from the facts try to develop public policy.

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Oct 1, 2012

Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? The fact is you ran in '94 and lost. That's why you -- this idea that suddenly citizenship showed up in your mind, just level with the American people. You've been running for at least since…

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Oct 1, 2012

Could we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? The fact is, you ran in '94 and lost. That's why you weren't serving in the Senate with Rick Santorum.

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Aug 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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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