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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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Jul 19, 2022

I have always said that 'build back poorer' would be a much more accurate title for that bill.

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Jul 19, 2022

We have got to help families, we have got to get our inflation under control, but we also have to understand we have got to quit spending for our families, for our children.

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Jul 19, 2022

As the largest debt holder in the world, the U.S. Government--if we end up in very high interest rates on the federal debt, it is going to eat up the budget.

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Jul 19, 2022

The policies that the Biden-Pelosi-Schumer team have followed don't work.

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Jul 19, 2022

If you really want to give people money to do nothing, a lot of people will learn to do nothing.

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Jul 19, 2022

I can't imagine a dumber moment to increase federal spending than in the middle of an inflationary crisis.

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Jul 19, 2022

What it does to families, what it does to children. It is one of the most deadly things that can happen.

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Jul 19, 2022

What works is cutting out corruption and incompetence.

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Jul 19, 2022

The greatest problem Washington has today is its inability to learn what works and what fails in the real world.

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Jul 19, 2022

That is how serious and dangerous this is.

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Jul 19, 2022

I love what Speaker Gingrich said about empowering families over empowering government.

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Jul 19, 2022

The Carter years were a nightmare.

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Jul 19, 2022

Inflation is too much paper money chasing too few goods and services.

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Jul 19, 2022

What we don't need is a government dominated, Washington centered system of once again trying to impose big government socialism on the whole country.

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Jul 19, 2022

What works is balancing the budget, what works is having a maximum number of able-bodied Americans going to work.

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Jul 19, 2022

The key is to find a way for people to rise so they never go off a cliff of losing so many government subsidies that it is now worth their while to go to work.

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Jul 19, 2022

There is no reason why people who are able bodied should be indolent and should be handed a check to do nothing.

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Jun 10, 2022

A coup is a serious effort to replace the government by an organized group who have that purpose. This was -- this was a mob, it was a riot.

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Feb 7, 2022

We are going to investigate Hunter Biden. We are going to investigate Mrs. Biden. We are going to find out what she`s doing in school.

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Jan 31, 2022

And I think when you have a Republican Congress, this is all going to come crashing down and the wolves that are going to find out that they're now sheep and they're the ones who, in fact, going to -- I think face a real risk of jail for…

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Jan 25, 2022

I think when you have a Republican congress, this is all going to come crashing down, and the wolves are going to find out that they are now sheep, and they are the ones who in fact are, I think, face a real risk of jail for the kind of…

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Jan 25, 2022

They`re the ones who are in fact, going to I think face a real risk of jail.

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Jan 24, 2022

I think, when you have a Republican Congress, this is all going to come crashing down, and the wolves are going to find out that they`re now sheep. And they`re the ones who are, in fact, going to, I think, face a real risk of jail for the…

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Jan 24, 2022

I think when you have a Republican Congress, this is all going to come crashing down. And the wolves are going to find out that they`re now sheep, and they`re the ones who are in fact going to I think face a real risk of jail for the kind…

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Jan 23, 2022

I think, when you have a Republican Congress, this is all going to come crashing down, and the wolves are going to find out that they`re now sheep. And they`re the ones who are, in fact, going to, I think, face a real risk of jail for the…

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