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" 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. "
Newt Gingrich
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" If I had to choose Reaganomics or 13 staffers quitting, I think for the average working American, Reaganomics was a much better deal. "
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" My style is to stay on the offensive: to take risks, to recover very fast when you make a mistake, but to keep moving forward. "
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" 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. "
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" We have to be as militant defending America as the enemies of America are in trying to destroy America. "
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" I believe we will elect a new President in 2012. "
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" I have a sense of being at peace. I understand when you give the sign of peace, and when the priest says, 'Peace be with you,' in a way I never did 10 or 15 years ago. I have a deep personal sense of what that means. "
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" Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for 'religious toleration' are arrogantly dishonest. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" One of my messages to Republicans is very simple: One-third of your schedule should be listening to people in minority communities. "
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" The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over. "
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" 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. "
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" I've been very clear publicly I'm not a perfect human being, and I've made mistakes in my life, and I've had to apologize to God and to seek reconciliation. "
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" If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now. "
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" I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid. "
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" 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. "
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" The Constitution of the United States has absolutely nothing to say about a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Were the federal courts to recognize such a right, it would be completely without constitutional basis. "
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" Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess. "
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" Frankly, I would not have made any difference in Vietnam, but much more is what difference it would have made in me. "
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" While abolishing judgeships and lower federal courts is a blunt tool and one whose use is warranted only in the most extreme of circumstances... it is one of many possibilities to check and balance the judiciary. "
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" 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. "
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" People have to render judgment. In my case, I've said upfront openly, I've made mistakes at times. I've had to go to God for forgiveness. I've had to seek reconciliation. But I'm also a 68-year-old grandfather, and I think people have to measure who I am now and whether I'm a person they can trust. "
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" I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job. "
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" President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown. "
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" In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. "
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" I discourage a cult of personality. "
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" I helped Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp develop supply-side economics. "
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" There I was on the front page of the 'London Times' as speaker of the House with an animal on top of my head. I liked it, but it was not what my staff thought was appropriately dignified. "
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