Newt Gingrich Quotes

You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.

Obama is not Bill Clinton. I don't think he's willing to let conservatives have any victories at all.

I'm disappointed, depressed, and demoralized. [...] It is very hard to avoid the conclusion that President Bush flinched from a fight on constitutional philosophy. Miers is undoubtedly a decent and competent person. But her selection will unavoidably be judged as reflecting a combination of cronyism and capitulation on the part of the president.

I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and party hatred are the last serpents which the genius of patriotism can crush.

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.

For Democrats, nothing is any less complex than a 'West Wing' episode.

I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.

'2016' is based on an experiment: what if you let Obama do it himself? That experiment is necessarily limited because I'm not factoring in a Republican House, a Supreme Court or the tug of public opinion.

All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.

If a President doesn't make enemies, he just won't be a very good President, that's all.

Because of the perverse, hostile, and malignant state of the opposition [the Federalists], with their faculty of imposing on the public mind and producing excitements, every measure originating with the executive will be attacked.

What we need to do is bitch-slap the Republican Party. Get those guys heeding too, and if we have to, we’ll take it over to make it a true conservative party,

It was easy for Sanford to have a bully pulpit as governor. It's another thing to be in the trenches, having to face leadership, and say, 'No, that's not a conservative position, that's not what we're doing.'

Conservatives looking at presidential candidates have to ask what kind of leader they want sitting in the White House.

I am basically a supporter of Barack Obama - it is not easy to be a post-partisan president in a hyper-partisan era.

The fact is that Democrats cannot stand dissent.

I have a confession to make: I am a Labour parliamentary candidate but like and get on with some of the Conservative persuasion.

There's one thing my dad taught me: don't talk about politics, because you'll never make anyone happy. Don't even go for it.

I came into politics to fight lefties... That's where political fighting goes.

As Democrats, we will never be fooled into believing that if we are patient enough, that Donald Trump could be a good president.

I've never done any cross-party stuff. I've no interest in sitting down discussing pensions or whatever with Tories.

In order to get big things done, sometimes, presidents have to be deft at moving the pea around under the shells.

I want to be the president for all Americans, regardless of your political beliefs, where you come from, what you look like, your religion.

Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.