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" I joined a Republican Party that was used to losing, used to being browbeaten by the Democrats. I represent a totally different style. "

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" People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz. "

" If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain. "

" If we are all endowed by our creator with the right to pursue happiness, that has to apply to the poorest neighborhoods in the poorest counties, and I am prepared to find something that works, that breaks us out of the cycles we have now to find a way for poor children to work and earn honest money. "

" I clearly have done things that were wrong. I've clearly had to seek God's forgiveness. "

" I think conservatives can be for very tough-minded trade. "

" 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. "

" It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending. "

" If you're not in 'The Washington Post' every day, you might as well not exist. "

" I read 'Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them,' and I found frightening pieces that related to... my own life. "

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

" This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain't going to happen. "

" 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. "

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

" One of my messages to Republicans is very simple: One-third of your schedule should be listening to people in minority communities. "

" I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor. "

" I had a period of thinking that I would have been called 'Newt the McPherson,' as in 'Robert the Bruce.' "

" You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week. "

" In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision. "

" Politics and war are remarkably similar situations. "

" If, as the popular saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the people who run our public schools fit that description. "

" Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration? "

" Somehow we must reintegrate the scientific with the popular and reconnect the future to the present. This is less a job for scientists, engineers, bureaucrats, and administrators and more a job for novelists, moviemakers, popularizers, and politicians. "

" You can't trust anybody with power. "

" A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. "

" I pray before virtually every speech and virtually every major decision. "

" The government shut down 12 times under Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill. It was only shut down twice while I was speaker. "

" I was once, I think, bitten on the nose by a lion cub. "

" The Central Park Zoo is a little gem in the middle of the city. Its penguin exhibit is terrific, and the seals are a permanent center of attraction for children. "

" We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point? "