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" The government shut down 12 times under Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill. It was only shut down twice while I was speaker. "
Newt Gingrich
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" I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for 'religious toleration' are arrogantly dishonest. "
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" 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. "
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" You can never study Franklin Delano Roosevelt too much. "
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" NASA should not be developing its own proprietary version of capabilities it could purchase commercially at much lower cost, especially when we know the agency's bureaucratic tendencies will be to view the commercial versions as competitors to kill. "
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" 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. "
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" People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz. "
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" I would just say, if Gov. Romney wants to give back all the money he's earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years at Bain, that I would be glad to listen to him. And I would bet you $10 - not $10,000 - that he would not take the offer. "
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" Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal. "
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" Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it. "
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" I have an enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. "
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" Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union. "
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" The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful. "
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" I think my health is probably fine. Let's be honest, you never know what could happen to somebody, but I think I'm in very good shape right now. "
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" 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. "
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" The genius of guys like Lincoln and Reagan and FDR - the great communicator leaders - is that they're actually educators, so they understand when they use a phrase that they have to explain it, because, by definition, you won't understand it or they wouldn't need to be using it. "
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" If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by. "
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" There is no question that at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about my country, that I worked far too hard and that things happened in my life that were not appropriate. "
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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 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. "
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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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" 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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" The fact is inner-city black districts are not the same as suburban Republican districts. That's a fact. And people need to go and learn about the whole country. "
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" I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. "
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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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" What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read. "
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