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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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Jun 7, 2009

They promised we would peak at 8 percent unemployment and on Friday we were at 9.4 percent which is not in their budget which means their budget is already wrecked because we are going to have higher unemployment, greater government…

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May 26, 2009

White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw.

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May 19, 2009

I think the Democrats should get a new speaker and the reason is the speaker is third in line to be president. She has a unique responsibility for national security. If you were a CIA agent today and you were told, 'Go brief Nancy Pelosi,'…

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May 14, 2009

I think this is the most despicable, dishonest and vicious political effort I've seen in my lifetime.

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Apr 29, 2009

This landmark report was the culmination of nearly 2 years of work by an independent task force of prominent national leaders.

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Apr 19, 2009

Enemies of America are going to use the picture of Chavez smiling and being with the president as proof that Chavez is now legitimate.

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Apr 12, 2009

The Navy SEALs did exactly the right thing in rescuing the American captain. President Obama did the right thing in allowing the Navy to act.

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Mar 24, 2009

Every 70 seconds, someone in America develops Alzheimer's disease.

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Mar 24, 2009

As Senator Gillibrand pointed out, 9.9 million caregivers provide 94 billion hours of uncompensated care per year.

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Mar 24, 2009

the idea that you would then try to deal with that on a fee-for-service model is utterly irrational.

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Mar 24, 2009

you ought to measure the amount of money to be spent on Alzheimer's research against the $20 trillion you are going to spend.

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Mar 24, 2009

Our commitment is that if we can find a way to have the breakthrough, that it ought to be a breakthrough for 100 percent of all Americans.

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Mar 24, 2009

I specifically want to thank Rob Egge, who was the Executive Director, and George and Trish Vradenburg.

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Mar 24, 2009

One of the reasons that he and I wanted to put in the joint Committee idea is to raise tentatively the notion with our former colleagues that the Congress is in as deep a need to rethink how it operates as the executive branch.

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Mar 24, 2009

I am very supportive of the President's initiative in allocating $17 billion for health information technology.

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Mar 24, 2009

Given the present trends, Alzheimer's will cost Medicare and Medicaid a projected $19.89 trillion between 2010 and 2050.

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Feb 26, 2009

I think it is the boldest effort to create a European socialist model we have seen. I think it's quite clear what his values and his attitude is.

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Oct 19, 2008

If you don't do that, you talk nice, all positive, he will lose this race.

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Jul 10, 2007

We don't need a year-and-a-half-long campaign. It is insane to think that we need a year-and-a-half with this kind of politics.

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May 28, 2007

Whoever is writing this stuff, between the Congress and the White House, is just totally out of -- they're living in a fantasy land.

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Apr 1, 2007

We should replace bilingual education with emergence -- with immersion in English, so people learn the common language of the country, and so they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.

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Mar 8, 2007

No person, including the president, is above the law. I will never again, as long as I'm speaker, make a speech without commenting on this topic.

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Mar 8, 2007

I think that the mother killing the two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we need to change things. The only way to get to change is to vote Republican.

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Mar 8, 2007

The president of the United States got in trouble for committing a felony in front of a sitting federal judge.

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