Quotes by Newt Gingrich

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

"Politics and war are remarkably similar situations."

"The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country."

"The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way."

"You can't trust anybody with power."

"I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran."

"You can't trust anybody with power."

"Politics and war are remarkably similar situations."

"I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics."

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

"I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office."

"One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea."

"Only the elites despise earning money."

"The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument."

"We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility."

"I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much."

"So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine."

"In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins."

"President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history."

"I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics."