Newt Gingrich

If the president had replaced Rumsfeld two weeks ago, the Republicans would still control the Senate, and they would probably have 10 more House members.

We're in the early stages of what I would describe as the third world war.

Is the next stage for Condi to go dancing with Kim Jong-Il?

He reminded us that America is about economic growth and entrepreneurs and job creation and that means lower taxes and less regulation.

It is the socially dumbest tax we have.

This was a mistake to take God out of the classroom.

I am proud that it is the Republicans who have produced the first serious, nationwide woman candidate for president.

For thirty-five years, God has been driven out of the classroom, and we have seen it result in a secular, atheistic system.

We have been given a wake up call that the experiment in secular liberalism has failed.

Mr. Speaker, I rise because I think this resolution offers us a very important opportunity to talk with ourselves and to talk with the world. The United States represents two enormous burdens that we have to live out: first, that we are…

I want to rise for just a moment to call the Members' attention to several members of the leadership staff who are leaving and to point out that when we look at the complexity of this institution, at how many different things have to work…

So we probably have about 35 to 40 percent as many aircraft that are mission ready as we would have had at the peak of the Reagan buildup.

I thank my friend. Let me just close by building on what he just said. We came in with a contract with America in 1994. In 1995 and 1996 we passed balanced budget agreements which the President vetoed, we fought to balance the budget. We…

Four out of every 10 aircraft, in a smaller Air Force, in a smaller Navy, 4 out of every 10 aircraft are not today mission capable at a 100 percent rate. We have fewer aircraft, fewer pilots. It is not like this was from the Reagan…

I must say, during the time I was on the floor, I listened to a series of Members with amazement. The distinguished gentleman from New York (Mr. Rangel), the ranking member on the Committee on Ways and Means, had an opportunity recently to…

let me say that I agree with the gentleman from Missouri that this is an imperfect instrument and that this is a difficult time. On the other hand, we were told a year ago it was the wrong time to vote. That was not an election year. Now…

Let me just say we have a surplus because we have consistently worked through welfare reform, through controlling spending, through cutting taxes, to encourage economic growth. We have proposed to set aside over a trillion dollars. My good…

If my colleagues think the most effective way to help education is to have 31 different Washington bureaucracies with 31 different sets of regulations, 31 different auditors, 31 different sets of red tape, reports and forms, so that school…

since this bill endorses a substantial increase in public spending, as you know, since this bill spends over $8,000 per child in the public schools. We do not have an exact accurate figure because the school system that you represent is so…

I am really puzzled by what has happened on the issue of the census, because I think it comes from a complete misunderstanding of what we are trying to accomplish. The census is at the center of the American political system. It is the…

The officers who were killed-- and all those who helped apprehend the gunman, assist the injured and evacuate the building--are true heroes of democracy, and every American owes them a deep debt of gratitude. They gave their lives to…

I offer a concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 311) honoring the memory of Detective John Michael Gibson and Private First Class Jacob Joseph Chestnut of the United States Capitol Police for their selfless acts of heroism at the United…

let me recapture for everybody we were are at here, because I think you have to put in context this interesting and inventive motion to recommit. First of all, under the Patient Protection Act that will come to final passage, anybody who…

let me say that I think that this is in some ways as historic a vote as the votes of the last three or four years. It did not start out this way this year. We had a budget agreement that was going to last for five years. I commend the…

But in a recent conference call with the very Governors the gentleman was talking about, they are quite satisfied with where we are going with welfare reform, and I think they will be quite happy with it.