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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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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

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

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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

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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Nov 9, 2006

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.

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Jul 20, 2006

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

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Jun 5, 2004

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

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Jun 29, 1999

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

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Jun 29, 1999

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

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Jun 29, 1999

It is the socially dumbest tax we have.

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