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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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Nov 16, 2021

The whole project is a lie.

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Nov 4, 2021

Now, if it`s real --if it`s -- first of all, it`s really tight, they`ll steal it. So, you can`t afford to have a really tight election. You have to win by big enough margin they can`t steal it.

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Nov 1, 2021

You have to win by a big enough margin they can’t steal it.

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Aug 15, 2021

President Obama is the most effective food stamp president in American history.

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May 3, 2021

The tax increase will kill jobs and lead to a recession and the recession will force people out of work and on to unemployment and actually increase the deficit.

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Apr 26, 2021

You can go right down a list of job-killing tax increases for most working Americans and for most retired Americans. This is clearly an unsatisfactory package.

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Apr 25, 2021

If you listed every idiotic thing that the Biden administration has done in the first 100 days, you begin to realize whether it’s threatening everybody who believes in the Second Amendment or it’s attacking everybody who believes in right…

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Jan 21, 2021

Look, I think you`re seeing the hysteria of the Biden system, because it`s not really about Biden himself. It`s this entire team around him who are radicals who believe, if they could exterminate, the Republicans...

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Dec 30, 2020

I really am very worried that if he plays a clever parliamentary game it may look good inside the senate but it could cost us two senate seats and control of the senate. So I would beg him to bring up the $2,000 payment as a free standing…

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Dec 29, 2020

The long-term control of the U.S. Senate wise in Georgia. Both Georgia senators have endorsed the $2,000 payment that President Trump has proposed. And Mitch ought to bring it up in a clean vote. I really am very worried that, if he plays…

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Dec 21, 2020

Probably. I think that we only had a couple of presidents in history who didn't. If he does not go, then I think he has to explain why. So, I think Trump's got to decide what best communicates his message. I think his instinct is not to…

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Dec 7, 2020

I believe Trump probably did actually carry Georgia. I believe that the election process is a mess. I really wish the governor would call a special session to clean it up. And the Republicans simply have to turn out more votes than Stacey…

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Dec 6, 2020

Well, they need to vote because the key to a Republican victory is to have more votes than the left can steal. That is very straightforward.

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Dec 3, 2020

This is totally destructive. Their don't vote strategy will cripple America.

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Nov 10, 2020

A whole series of Democrats who just said normally, if our candidate doesn't win, they please stole the election.

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Jul 16, 2020

I think oversight is unbelievably important. I don't think we do enough of it, and I don't think we develop enough expertise in it.

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Jul 16, 2020

I sense we are beginning to be the land of the timid and the home of the fearful.

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Jul 16, 2020

I think trying to govern by video is a disaster.

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Jul 16, 2020

I think you begin to set up a post-legislative body that is something we have never seen before.

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Jul 16, 2020

I can also tell you that I am a big fan of congressional delegation trips, because you get away from your staff, you get away from your constituents, you get away from lobbyists.

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Jul 16, 2020

I was very impressed with the witnesses, and I have no doubt that if the House decides it is wise, that you can develop a very solid system.

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Jul 16, 2020

I think humans learn from each other, and when you start trying to replace humans with a mechanical interface or an electronic interface you rapidly degrade the long-term wisdom of the collective group.

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Jul 16, 2020

I find the idea of the political class being too precious to take the risk of getting together, I find that goes against everything in the American system.

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Jul 16, 2020

Politicians are not more important than truck drivers. They are not more important than nurses.

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Jul 16, 2020

I wish you would drop this sense of panic, relax, figure out how to get together in a healthy way.

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