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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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Mar 23, 2015

Congress ought to explore reestablishing the USIA as an independent agency.

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Mar 23, 2015

Until we have that debate, and understand, Iran is our mortal enemy.

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Mar 2, 2015

If we can't delay Alzheimer's by 5 or 6 years, you know, we are going to go bankrupt.

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Nov 19, 2014

I think it was too big and it collapses under its own weight.

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Nov 19, 2014

The constitution doesn't say the president should obey the law until he gets frustrated.

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Nov 19, 2014

It's not the president's right to dictate with the newly elected Congress that has repudiated his policies in the election.

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Sep 9, 2014

I think the idea that success is going to be defined as Mogadishu is crazy.

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Jun 10, 2014

I do think that the results of the last week were, for example, over the weekend 700 children crossed the American border, everything the president has said about controlling the border is totally not true.

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Jun 10, 2014

Yes, and you can't just go home and lecture them. You actually have to go to home and have a genuine conversation.

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Jun 10, 2014

The guy is in shock. His pollster told him he was going to win by 34 points. He goes into election night totally confident. He outspent his opponent 25 to 1.

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Jun 9, 2014

This country is angry about Washington. It's angry about terrorists being released. It's angry about Obamacare, angry about the economy.

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Jun 9, 2014

I get frankly pretty sick of the Washington elites telling us what we should tell people, if you can't go home and explain what you're doing, you should change what you're doing or you should quit your job.

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Jun 9, 2014

In the end, the voters get to decide. It is not the money or the PACs or the consultants.

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Jun 9, 2014

I just think in the country at large there is a growing exhaustion with negative politics and negative attacks.

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Jun 9, 2014

And people need to have a little bit of respect for the right of the voter to have attention paid to them and the right of the voter to throw people out if they're not happy with them.

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Jun 9, 2014

I think this is about a scale heat earthquake. I think it will shock the Washington establishment and will shock the House Republicans.

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Jan 27, 2014

I think Speaker Boehner has made very clear that he is going to produce immigration reform in the House. I suspect they'll get it done by June or July.

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Jan 27, 2014

I think if the president is willing to take 80 percent of what he wants he can get something signed this year and it will be a very substantial step towards immigration reform to make the system dramatically more workable.

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Jan 27, 2014

I just think it's amazing that in the fifth year, suddenly Obama jumps up and goes I have a pen.

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Jan 27, 2014

what a dereliction of duty. He's had five years to do all these things.

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Oct 29, 2013

Sebelius' dishonesty and testimony this morning exceeds anything President Nixon was accused of. The Obama team cannot tell the truth and survive.

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Oct 29, 2013

Now it's either true or it's not true. And you can obfuscate and use big words but the fact is the president of the United States knowingly, I mean, if he'd gone to the country and said look, about 16 million of you are going to lose your…

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Oct 29, 2013

You've had White House tweet by Valerie Jarrett saying that Obamacare doesn't cost anybody their insurance. That's just plain not true.

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Oct 13, 2013

This is going to be an ongoing process, though, and if you look at the current rollout and you look at the number of people reporting that their insurance prices are going up, not down, I suspect we're going to be debating Obamacare at…

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