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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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Jan 3, 2012

This is a man whose staff created the PAC. His millionaire friends fund the PAC. He pretends he has nothing to do with the PAC. It's baloney. He's not telling the American people the truth. This is like his pretense that he's a…

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Jan 3, 2012

They would listen and they really wanted to get to the truth rather than the latest 30-second distortion. I would not have survived in this campaign against millions and millions of dollars of negative advertising, if it weren't for the…

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Jan 3, 2012

They would listen, and they really wanted to get to the truth, rather than the latest 30-second distortion.

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Jan 1, 2012

I wish frankly that the people running all these negative ads would adopt a very simple rule. If you won't show your ad to your grandchildren, don't run it.

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Jan 1, 2012

This is exciting, it's interesting, it's fascinating, but it's not at the center of my being. It's at the center of my duty.

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Jan 1, 2012

If I have to choose between the next billion dollars going to Iran or going to Iowa, I would pick Iowa.

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Jan 1, 2012

We've gotten into a really sick system where people raise lots of money to hire very nasty people to run very vicious commercials. And it is sickening the whole process.

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Jan 1, 2012

Sure. I think you'll see us Wednesday morning in New Hampshire being much clearer about the choice between a conservative and a moderate.

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Jan 1, 2012

I don't think I'm going to win. I think if you look at the numbers, I think that volume of negativity has done enough damage.

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Jan 1, 2012

He's giving me no choice except to make clear the difference between the two of us because I would have been perfectly happy to have run a totally positive campaign and never mentioned it. He's made that impossible.

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Dec 29, 2011

When asked yesterday if he would stay in the race if he finished fourth on Tuesday, he said he would.

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Dec 29, 2011

And my whole emphasis on brain science comes in directly from dealing -- see, I'm going to be emotional of dealing with, you know, the real problems of real people in my family.

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