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1. “I’m not a natural leader. I’m too intellectual; I’m too abstract; I think too much.”
~Newt Gingrich, admitting that he’s an intellectual elite incapable of leading.
2. “If the Soviet empire still existed, I’d be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.”
~Newt Gingrich, saying that it’s okay for the President to be ignorant.
3. “The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.”
~Newt Gingrich, arguing that it’s okay for politicians to be bought and paid for.
4. “Give the park police more ammo.” ~Newt Gingrich, responding to a reporter who asked what to do about the homeless a few days after the police shot a homeless man in front of the White House.
5. “The problem isn’t too little money in political campaigns, but not enough.”
~Newt Gingrich on campaign finance reform.
6. “I have enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I’m doing it. I am now a famous person. I represent real power.”
~Newt Gingrich, blowing his own horn.
7. “Gingrich – Primary mission, Advocate of civilization, Definer of civilization, Teacher of the rules of civilization, Leader of the civilizing forces.”
~ Newt Gingrich, blowing his own horn.
8. “The most serious, systematic revolutionary of modern times.”
~Newt Gingrich, blowing his own horn.
9. “It doesn’t matter what I do. 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.”
~Newt Gingrich, saying we should do as he says, regardless of what he actually does.
10. “This is one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration. The more successful they’ve been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof there is that we’re in danger…. It’s almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us.”
~Newt Gingrich, at a book talk in Huntington, NY, April 2008, saying that Republicans should allow terrorist attacks on American soil to remind us of the dangers in the world.
11. “Now, we don’t get rid of it in round one because we don’t think that that’s politically smart, and we don’t think that’s the right way to go through a transition. But we believe it’s going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it — voluntarily.”
~Newt Gingrich, admitting that while they won’t kill Medicare outright, Republicans will try to make it wither on the vine and die.
12. “She isn’t young enough or pretty enough to be the President’s wife.”
~Newt Gingrich, talking about his first wife after divorcing her.
13. “I read Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them and I found frightening pieces that related to…my own life.”
~Newt Gingrich, talking about his problems with women.
14. “It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid…These schools should get rid of unionized janitors, have one master janitor, pay local students to take care of the school.”
~Newt Gingrich, advocating for an end to child labor laws so businesses can fire union workers and replace them with cheap labor.
15. “We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.”
~Newt Gingrich. Two years later, Gingrich unveils a new Spanish-language website, The Americano.
16. “The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple innocent people in the name of letting hooligans loose.”
~Newt Gingrich, smearing Democrats
17. “These people are sick. They are so consumed by their own power, by a Mussolini-like ego, that their willingness to run over normal human beings and to destroy honest institutions is unending.”
~Newt Gingrich, once again smearing Democrats,
18. “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, and loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words.”
~Newt Gingrich, advocating for hateful rhetoric and smearing opponents with lies.
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4691
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Newt
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12/4/2011 9:21:56 AM
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Hound - Is three any chance I can convince you to switch your vote from Newt to Michele Bachmann in the primary?
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I assume you are joking.
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If you are at all concerned about what you think Obama has done to this country, just pray that Newt doesn't get elected. He'll complete the job.
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Well, given your age, I don't think anyone will be asking you to fight for Newt's ideas.
But given all the ideas that Newt throws out, can you tell the difference between the ones that he throws out for intellectual debate and the ones that he is serious about.
No, I'll not vote (or fight) for Newt's ideas.
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MartiniMan
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Oblamer
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12/4/2011 6:31:29 PM
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Difference is you voted for him....none of us have voted for Newt....yet. These lists are stupid and meaningless but assuming you were making some kind of point it applies to the Messiah in spades...
"When I meet with world leaders, what's striking -- whether it's in Europe or here in Asia..." -mistakenly referring to Hawaii as Asia while holding a press conference outside Honolulu, Nov. 16, 2011
"We're the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad." —Cincinnati, OH, Sept. 22, 2011
"We're not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that's fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money. But, you know, part of the American way is, you know, you can just keep on making it if you're providing a good product or providing good service. We don’t want people to stop, ah, fulfilling the core responsibilities of the financial system to help grow our economy." —on Wall Street reform, Quincy, Ill., April 29, 2010
"One such translator was an American of Haitian descent, representative of the extraordinary work that our men and women in uniform do all around the world -- Navy Corpse-Man Christian Brossard." –mispronouncing "Corpsman" (the "ps" is silent) during a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, D.C., Feb. 5, 2010 (The Corpsman's name is also Christopher, not Christian)
"The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries." --Tampa, Fla., Jan. 28, 2010
"UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? It's the Post Office that's always having problems." –attempting to make the case for government-run healthcare, while simultaneously undercutting his own argument, Portsmouth, N.H., Aug. 11, 2009
"The Cambridge police acted stupidly." —commenting on a white police officer's arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home in Cambridge, Mass., at a news conference, July 22, 2009
"The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system." --in remarks after a health care roundtable with physicians, nurses and health care providers, Washington, D.C., July 20, 2009
"It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of -- I don't know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing." --confusing German for "Austrian," a language which does not exist, Strasbourg, France, April 6, 2009
"No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something." --making an off-hand joke during an appearance on "The Tonight Show", March 19, 2009 (Obama later called the head of the Special Olympics to apologize)
"I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any seances." --after saying he had spoken with all the living presidents as he prepared to take office, Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 2008 (Obama later called Nancy Reagan to apologize)
"I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." -- defending his tax plan to Joe the Plumber, who argued that Obama's policy hurts small-business owners like himself, Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 12, 2008
"What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith..." --in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, who jumped in to correct Obama by saying "your Christian faith," which Obama quickly clarified (Watch video clip)
"I'm here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis." --speaking via satellite to the Democratic National Convention, while in Kansas City, Missouri, Aug. 25, 2008
"Let me introduce to you the next President -- the next Vice President of the United States of America, Joe Biden." --slipping up while introducing Joe Biden at their first joint campaign rally, Springfield, Illinois, Aug. 23, 2008
"Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee -- which is my committee -- a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon." --referring to a committee he is not on, Sderot, Israel, July 23, 2008
"Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain...administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change." --Amman, Jordan, July 22, 2008
"How's it going, Sunshine?" --campaigning in Sunrise, Florida
"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."
"Hold on one second, sweetie, we're going to do -- we'll do a press avail." --to a female reporter for ABC's Detroit affiliate who asked about his plan to help American autoworkers (Watch video clip)
"I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go." --at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon (Watch video clip)
"Why can't I just eat my waffle?" --after being asked a foreign policy question by a reporter while visiting a diner in Pennsylvania
"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." --explaining his troubles winning over some working-class voters
"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred in our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."
"Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions." --exasperated by reporters after a news conference
"You're likeable enough, Hillary." --during a Democratic debate
"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." --on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people
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12/4/2011 6:45:44 PM
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Hound - Yes, I was joking. But then I thought about it for a while. Some how you were convinced to vote for Obama in the last election. So why would it be such a far stretch for you to vote for Bachmann in this next election. After all, compared to Obama she has as good or better education, more work experience in law (and not at risk for being disbarred), more work experience in government, more work experience in private sector including owning small businesses, more elected office experience, better judgement (e.g; does not hang with radicals), and supports sound fiscal principles (Tea Party style). Now that the Cain train is derailed, what other republican should get your vote?
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Talullahhound
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Unfortunately for you
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12/4/2011 9:31:19 PM
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this thread is not about Obama. It's about Newt Gingrich. Are you ready to do away with child labor laws and put children to work? Are you ready to grant amnesty to the illegals in this country?
Don't get so involved with hating Obama that you forget to listen to what Gingrich is saying.
If you think we are on a bad road with Obama and that he is pulling the country down, just wait until Newt gets elected. He'll finish the job.
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MartiniMan
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My point is right on
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12/4/2011 9:41:42 PM
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You apparently are trying to convince yourself or others maybe that these quotes disqualify Gingrich as if any of them are more stupid or objectionable than what your Messiah has said. You can't hold us to one standard and yourself to another. That is the stance of a hypocrite and you don't want to risk being one of those do you?!?!? And despite the fact that no one believes Newt will do away with child labor laws (and frankly anyone that does is either ideologically blind or mind-numbingly stupid) I would take any one the potentially bad ideas he has over what Oblamer has actually done to destroy this country in the last 3 years.
I will repeat, lists like these are stupid and meaningless and I will now add childish because the very person who is trying to denigrate Newt based on these seems to not have a care in the world about what her choice for President has said and done. Newt, Bachman, Perry, Romney. etc. and even the nut job Ron Paul would be a dramatic improvement over the current occupant in the WH (who you voted for I might add once again.....which is why your opinion holds so little credibility with those of us that think critically and logically). It has reached the point that a person selected randomly from the telephone book has better than even odds of doing a better job than Jimmy Carter, II.
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Talullahhound
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Your point is BS
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12/4/2011 9:59:43 PM
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These are quotes from Newt. With all the things you write about Obama, it's time for some "fair and balanced" information. I guess you would prefer to have information suppressed that doesn't support your point of view.
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MartiniMan
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Your post is BS
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12/4/2011 10:03:05 PM
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You seem way more interested in presenting a bunch of quotes from Newt as if that should mean something and all it demonstrates is your lack of intellectual honesty. How about this.....go find a bunch of really smart quotes from Newt and then try to find a similar list with Obama while he is off the teleprompter. I wish you all the luck in the world...because you will need it.
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Newt
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12/5/2011 2:21:09 AM
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NEWT is and has been my pick since he announced he was running to start with even when he was wrote off at the beginning of his campaign. Now I know Hound will just sit this one out like she said in a earllier post but I think she should really give NEWT a second thought.
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Give us the references, whereby we can see for ourselves what was said and in context. Otherwise these quotes have very little meaning and use.
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