I knew Ronald Reagan and thin skinned Newt is no Ronald Reagan. Never will be. Not even close.
His oratorical prowess is Churchillian.
I for one do not feel helpless.
Thank you for saying this. I agree with you.
If you haven’t seen this video, please take the time and watch it. Esp around 23 minutes into it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2833200/posts
SOME SELECT NEWT QUOTES:
You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.
Newt Gingrich
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that’s what freedom is all about.
Newt Gingrich
An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.
Newt Gingrich
And by the way I don’t object if people want to attack me, that’s their right. All I’m suggesting that it’s not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking.
Newt Gingrich
And my point was one I think that you’d agree with, which is there’s no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we’re either color blind or we’re not color blind.
Newt Gingrich
Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.
Newt Gingrich
Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they’re cultural?
Newt Gingrich
I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.
Newt Gingrich
I believe we will elect a new President in 2012.
Newt Gingrich
I discourage a cult of personality.
Newt Gingrich
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.
Newt Gingrich
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.
Newt Gingrich
I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama.
Newt Gingrich
I’m going to be the nominee. It’s very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I’m going to be the nominee.
Newt Gingrich
I’m not a natural leader. I’m too intellectual; I’m too abstract; I think too much.
Newt Gingrich
If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?
Newt Gingrich
If the Soviet empire still existed, I’d be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
Newt Gingrich
If you’re not brave, you’re not going to be free.
Newt Gingrich
Imagine a judicial nominee said ‘my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.’ Wouldn’t they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.
Newt Gingrich
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
Newt Gingrich
In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.
Newt Gingrich
It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.
Newt Gingrich
My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I’m going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results.
Newt Gingrich
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.
Newt Gingrich
Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them.
Newt Gingrich
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
Newt Gingrich
President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.
Newt Gingrich
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.
Newt Gingrich
Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it’s bold. It’s out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it’s hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.
Newt Gingrich
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
Newt Gingrich
The most important social welfare program in America is a job.
Newt Gingrich
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.
Newt Gingrich
The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
Newt Gingrich
We don’t we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?
Newt Gingrich
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.
Newt Gingrich
We’re all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.
Newt Gingrich
We’re at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
Newt Gingrich
What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.
Newt Gingrich
Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.
Newt Gingrich
You can’t trust anybody with power.
Newt Gingrich
Obama was also lauded as a great speaker back in ‘08...
Being articulate is important in order to explain your ideas. But there is something far more important, and I am disturbed that more people don’t realize it - a record of solid conservative achievement.
Politicians always promise us the moon, but we get our country into trouble if we vote on the basis of their promises.
Which of the candidates actually achieved a record of balancing the national budget, welfare reform, creating millions of jobs, and outmanuevering the Democrats?
This is an excellant article and I appreciate your posting it and I appreciate most of the comments on this thread, post 6 by nikos1121 Newt’s quotes, post 11 by JediJones that Newt obvioosly writes his own material and post 12 by Leep, the 3 points, Newt’s provable record of sucess, his ability to articulate and his not allowing the media or his opponet to define him.
Newt is also a historian and I believe that this will help him set us on the right path.