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The problem has been there's such an overreliance, particularly in the Democratic Party, that the solution to poverty is more government spending and more federal programs.

It's oversensitivity that starts to accuse Republicans who are saying that the solutions to the most intractable poverty problems are found in the private sector.

Newt has got to decide that. Newt can do tremendous damage and Newt could never win the presidency.

Newt has to make a judgment call about what does he want to get out of being in this race.

If that money can wound Mitt Romney, then Newt might be the last man standing.

I think the Bain attacks are definitely going to hurt Newt as well. They could also hurt Romney.

The reason that we have these super PACs is Campaign Finance Reform.

Now that Barack Obama has broken this egg, it will not get put back together.

Barack Obama is not a reformer. He didn't come to change Washington. He came to preserve his own brand.

The reason that's so destructive, especially for Social Security, that if Social Security is no longer a retirement fund and which you take money and give it to the government, they are supposed to invest it for you in Social Security.

The Democrats always want to pay for everything with another tax hike on somebody.

My message to the president and to Senator Harry Reid is congratulations. You're now governing in two-month increments.

And that's my point about the splits. There are so many splits, this is so hard to handicap.

But these issues really are not sticking to Newt. People are saying this about Newt, but this is not what's going to hurt Newt. What's going to hurt Newt is whether Newt blows himself up.

That's consistency. That's character.

The idea of medical records is actually something he worked on with Hillary Clinton.

I think he should have been blunt and just said that he worked as somebody who gave strategic advice.

Usually, there's one powerful front-runner, and then somebody emerges late and you have that two-person race.

There are a lot of groups that are very important. Tea party. The evangelicals. There's the establishment.

It's so wide-open. These splits are wide.

A campaign is based on what can you do for the country and what's the difference between you and the other guy who wants to do something for the country.

If Republicans get convinced that a vote for Newt is a vote for Obama, it really could kill him as this campaign goes along.

If Newt is going to become the nominee, he's got to show a steady stream of polls.

Newt doesn't have a record for staying silent when things are said about him.