65 Newt Gingrich Quotes On Success In Life

Newton Leroy Gingrich is an American politician and author who served as the 50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 6th congressional district serving north Atlanta and nearby areas from 1979 until his resignation in 1999. In 2012, Gingrich unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. These Newt Gingrich quotes will motivate you.

Best Newt Gingrich Quotes

1. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” ~ Newt Gingrich
2. “I don’t see how the party that says it’s the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter-century.” ~ Newt Gingrich

3. “1994 GOP victory destroyed bipartisanship.” ~ Newt Gingrich

4. “Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of ‘I do this and you give me cash’ unless it’s illegal.” ~ Newt Gingrich
5. “I think that 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, which would be great around the camp fire, but are lousy in politics.” ~ Newt Gingrich
6. “The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.” ~ Newt Gingrich

7. “There is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us.” ~ Newt Gingrich

8. “It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can’t even read.” ~ Newt Gingrich
9. “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
10. “The secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.” ~ Newt Gingrich
11. “If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, ‘Candle-making industry threatened’.” ~ Newt Gingrich
12. “The Big Trump is a historic figure. The Big Trump beat 16 other people for the nomination. The Big Trump is creating issues that make the establishment very uncomfortable. The Little Trump frankly gets out – is stupid. I mean, that comment just then is dumb. And I don’t defend him when he wanders off; I’ve told him over and over.” ~ Newt Gingrich

13. “Press plays “gotcha”; limit press briefings.” ~ Newt Gingrich

14. “We’re at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.” ~ Newt Gingrich
15. “I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.” ~ Newt Gingrich
16. “I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [his grandchildren are] my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.” ~ Newt Gingrich

17. “I don’t care who you are, I care who you want to be.” ~ Newt Gingrich

18. “Now, I know among the politically correct, you’re not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable.” ~ Newt Gingrich
19. “The fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn’t want to talk about ideology because they don’t want to explain publicly what they’re really doing.” ~ Newt Gingrich
20. “Reagan believed the power of truth restated the world and re-framed the world. I am a Reaganite. I’m proud to be a Reaganite. I will tell the truth, even if it’s at the risk of causing some confusion sometimes with the timid.” ~ Newt Gingrich
21. “Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a process of enforced boredom and age segregation that has produced one of the most destructive social arrangements in human history: consigning 13-year-old males to learning from 15-year-old males.” ~ Newt Gingrich
22. “Donald Trump is going to win. Donald Trump is going to win because in the end, the country is not going to reward big banks and big unions and big bureaucracies and big donors and big corruption by voting for a big liar.” ~ Newt Gingrich

23. “I don’t think we have conclusive proof that humans are at the center of [global warming]” ~ Newt Gingrich

24. “Remember, most of the bureaucrats voted for Hillary Clinton. Most of the bureaucrats deeply dislike what Trump is trying to accomplish, and most of the bureaucrats think they can’t be fired, so they can outlast you.” ~ Newt Gingrich
25. “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
26. “Lions cannot afford to hunt mice because they literally will starve to death, even if they catch them. Lions and all large carnivores have to hunt game large enough to justify the investment, so they have to hunt antelope and zebra. Why is this important? Because most senior executives are really big on chipmunks.” ~ Newt Gingrich
27. “The America in which we grew up is vastly different from America the secular-socialist Left want to create. And that’s why saving America is the fundamental challenge of our time. The secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.” ~ Newt Gingrich

28. “I’m not a natural leader. I’m too intellectual; I’m too abstract; I think too much.” ~ Newt Gingrich

29. “The American challenge in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution.” ~ Newt Gingrich
30. “Those of us who believe in free markets and those of us who believe that in fact the whole goal of investment is entrepreneurship and job creation, we find it pretty hard to justify rich people figuring out clever legal ways to loot a company, leaving behind 1,700 families without a job.” ~ Newt Gingrich
31. “You can’t trust anybody with power.” ~ Newt Gingrich
32. “You want to be a country that creates food stamps? In which case, frankly, Obama is an enormous success the most successful food stamp president in American history. Or do you want to be a country that creates jobs?” ~ Newt Gingrich

33. “Established systems are inherently hostile to change.” ~ Newt Gingrich

34. “Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There’s no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center.” ~ Newt Gingrich
35. “I think Jefferson and George Washington would strongly discourage you from growing marijuana, and their tactics to stop you would be more violent than they would be today.” ~ Newt Gingrich quotes
36. “The key is to remember there is a tomorrow morning. The dance will continue.” ~ Newt Gingrich
37. “If you import a commercial quantity of illegal drugs. It is because you have made the personal decision that you are prepared to get rich by destroying our children. I have made the decision that I love our children enough that we will kill you if you do this.” ~ Newt Gingrich

38. “Drill here, drill now, pay less.” ~ Newt Gingrich

39. “Hillary Clinton has built a huge machine. Donald Trump’s asset is people on Facebook and Twitter. He can communicate with them eight or 10 times a day with no money. This is a different world.” ~ Newt Gingrich
40. “I believe we will elect a new President in 2012.” ~ Newt Gingrich
41. “Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation’s global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures.” ~ Newt Gingrich
42. “If we’d had the government on [today’s] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that railroads could not travel faster than a horse because it would be an unfair competitive advantage.” ~ Newt Gingrich

43. “The most important social welfare program in America is a job.” ~ Newt Gingrich

44. “Donald Trump is not an immigrant basher. His mother was a legal immigrant. His wife is a legal immigrant. He employs legal immigrants. He just likes his immigrants to be legal.” ~ Newt Gingrich
45. “By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.” ~ Newt Gingrich
46. “If you’re not brave, you’re not going to be free.” ~ Newt Gingrich
47. “A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that’s what freedom is all about.” ~ Newt Gingrich
48. “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

49. “Leadership matters and solving things before a crisis is important.” ~ Newt Gingrich

50. “You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.” ~ Newt Gingrich
51. “Under our [constitutional system] – either we’re going to have to rethink our Constitution, or we’re going to have to rethink our process of decision-making.” ~ Newt Gingrich
52. “Christmas represents love and mercy. It was ushered in by the star of hope and remains forever consecrated by the sacrifice of the cross. Christmas holds its place in the hearts of men because they know that love is the greatest thing in the world. Christmas is celebrated in the true spirit only by those who make some sacrifice for the benefit of their fellow men.” ~ Newt Gingrich
53. “The folks who want to build this mosque, who are really radical Islamists, who want to triumph fully prove they can build a mosque next to a place where 3,000 Americans were killed by radical Islamists. Those folks don’t have any interest in reaching out to the community. They’re trying to make a case about supremacy… This happens all the time in America. Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor.” ~ Newt Gingrich

54. “GOP represents people, but Dems communicate better.” ~ Newt Gingrich

55. “I’m opposed to giving people money for doing nothing.” ~ Newt Gingrich
56. “Liberals exploit weakness; conservatives offer strength.” ~ Newt Gingrich
57. “In every election in American history, both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.” ~ Newt Gingrich

58. “Criminals thrive on society’s understanding.” ~ Newt Gingrich

59. “Gingrich – primary missionAdvocate of civilizationDefiner of civilization

    Teacher of the Rules of Civilization…
    Leader (Possibly) of the civilizing forces…” ~ Newt Gingrich

60. “Now you have to ask a question – is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money? Or is that in fact somehow a little bit of a flawed system? And so I do draw distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods and then leaving a factory that should be there.” ~ Newt Gingrich
61. “We have got to get beyond this political bologna. I’m not allowed to say anything positive about Hillary Clinton because then I’m not a loyal Republican, and she’s not allowed to say anything positive about me because then she’s not a loyal Democrat. What a stupid way to run a country.” ~ Newt Gingrich

62. “Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.” ~ Newt Gingrich

63. “The sacrament of marriage is based on a man and woman.” ~ Newt Gingrich
64. “Donald Trump has a grand direction. He doesn’t have a grand strategy. He wants to re-establish American authority and power and to relaunch the American economy.” ~ Newt Gingrich
65. “Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire’s challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail.” ~ Newt Gingrich

Comment Your Favourite Newt Gingrich Quotes!