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" You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I helped lead the effort to defeat communism in the Congress. "

" I have an enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live. "

" My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves. "

" Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas. "

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

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

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

" If you take all the money we've spent at NASA since we landed on the moon and you had applied that money for incentives to the private sector, we would today probably have a permanent station on the moon, three or four permanent stations in space, a new generation of lift vehicles. "

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

" I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama. "

" You've got the North Koreans building weapons; you got the Iranians building weapons. You've got - the Pakistanis already have at least 100 nuclear weapons. Do you think there's any serious effort in this country to come to grips with that? "

" Trump has got to, I think, move to a new level. This is no longer the primaries. He's no longer an interesting contender. He is now the potential leader of the United States and he's got to move his game up to the level of being a potential leader. "

" 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. "

" Is the purpose of free elections to allow the most clever and vicious person to aggregate power, or is the purpose of free elections to enable the American people to have a serious conversation about their country's future and try to find both a policy and a personality that they think will carry to them that better future? "

" 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 will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job. "

" I think what you'll find is overall, overwhelmingly, evangelicals would prefer me to Barack Obama. "

" 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. "

" If I had to choose Reaganomics or 13 staffers quitting, I think for the average working American, Reaganomics was a much better deal. "

" I'm a controversial guy. "

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

" We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something. "