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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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Jun 19, 2019

the most compassionate thing that Members of Congress can do is to say we need to take people from government dependence, welfare, and move them to technical training, move them to work, move them to self-sufficiency.

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Jun 19, 2019

I think that the most compassionate thing that Members of Congress can do is to say we need to take people from government dependence, welfare, and move them to technical training, move them to work, move them to self-sufficiency.

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Jun 19, 2019

But I will tell you this. I think that the most compassionate thing that Members of Congress can do is to say we need to take people from government dependence, welfare, and move them to technical training, move them to work, move them to…

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Sep 25, 2018

This is not the time to play politics.

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Sep 25, 2018

Bold leadership produced the Endangered Species Act in 1973, perhaps the most effective piece of environmental legislation in our country's history.

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Jul 15, 2018

Newt Gingrich, who I don't often quote, has said that this is the most serious mistake of President Trump's presidency, and it needs to be corrected immediately.

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Jun 15, 2017

Technically, presidents of the United States cannot obstruct justice. The president of the United States is the chief executive officer of the United States, if he wants to fire the FBI director, all he has to do is fire him.

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Jun 11, 2017

Republicans are delusional if they think the special counsel is going to be fair. Look at who he is hiring. Check FEC reports. Time to rethink.

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Jun 11, 2017

Robert Mueller is superb choice to special counsel. His reputation is impeccable for honesty and integrity. Media should now calm down.

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May 23, 2017

This young man who worked for the Democratic National Committee who apparently was assassinated at 4:00 in the morning having given Wikileaks something like 23,000 -- I'm sorry, 53,000 e-mails.

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Apr 12, 2017

Bannon is a brilliant pirate who has had a huge impact, but White House is in the end are like the U.S. Navy Corporate Structures and very hard on pirates.

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Mar 22, 2017

So a victory, a victory today is not always a victory tomorrow. And so Pres. Trump may get a victory tomorrow with this vote.

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Mar 22, 2017

President Obama wanted Obamacare. It was a huge victory the Democrats. It was a giant celebration and they got pummeled in next four elections.

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Feb 8, 2017

I would instruct the national security officials in the Gingrich administration to ignore the recent decisions of the Supreme Court on national security matters.

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Dec 4, 2016

As tough as I've been in public, which has been very aggressive and deliberately about Mitt, I've gotten no blow back from anybody including Reince. I mean there's a sense of you're allowed to have your own opinion.

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Nov 28, 2016

The president of the United States should not be randomly tweeting without having someone else checking it out. You wonder what else he is doing.

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Nov 22, 2016

I will support whoever President-elect Trump picks because he has the right I think as the new president to build the team he wants to build.

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Nov 22, 2016

I could think of 20 other people who would be more naturally compatible with the Trump vision of foreign policy.

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Nov 20, 2016

I think there are huge advantages to Rudy Giuliani, frankly. I mean, I think he -- he wants somebody who's going to go out and be a very tough negotiator for America.

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Nov 13, 2016

And they now want to come back and say that anything anybody ever published in Breitbart is Steve Bannon. That's baloney.

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Oct 25, 2016

And therefore we're going send Bill Clinton back to the east wing because after all you are worried about sexual predator.

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Oct 25, 2016

Where you want to go back to the tapes of your show recently. You are fascinated with sex and you don't care about public policy.

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Sep 21, 2016

It is extraordinary that the political correctness of Western elites has discouraged the study of what inspires those who dream of slaughtering us.

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Sep 21, 2016

Radical Islamist terrorists are the ones who threaten our freedoms and threaten our way of life, not the millions of Muslims who value peace.

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