Newt Gingrich Quotes

In a precursor to the 1948 unexpected 1948 Dewey defeat for the presidency, Charles Evans Hughes was favored to defeat Woodrow Wilson in 1916. Based on early returns in the East, New York Times and other newspapers had conceded the election to Hughes in their evening editions. Hughes retired early in his hotel. After midnight, a New York reporter called his suite. Hughes' son answered.

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This is one of the most cutting put downs of a politician in a formal parliamentary session. Farage was fined 2000 Euros for this speech which had violated the rules against personal attacks.

When he became president himself, he not only served 10 years but changed the constitution so that he could serve forever and was still President over 20 years later. See {620732} for another similar statement.

The Vice President was on David Letterman's show when the host told an undignified joke about President William Clinton.

The only soldier ever so honored

Although the Jacksonian Democrats were the political successors to the Jeffersonian Democratic Republicans, Jefferson found Jackson wanting as a potential president. Although Jefferson had made this statement during the 1824 Election, it did not become public until the Election of 1828 — Jackson’s second term. At that time Edward Coles, Formerly James Madison’s Secretary, disclosed the quotation.

Early in the Donald Trump Presidency, some of his first decisions, including his Anti-Muslim ban on immigration and vistitation from 7 Islamic nations, were very distrubing to amy politicians experienced in national security and defense. 100 leaders from past adminsitrations, Democratic and Republicans, signed a petition warning that the travek ban endangered our national security. Then 1000 U. S. State Department Diplomats signed a letter advising the President to recind the order for similar reasons. Malinowski was asked if this kind of opposition to a new presidents actions was unusual. This quotation was his reply. Not the use of sarcasim. He states what happened in very stark terms and then says that it is not unusual and there is notjing to worry about, when it was withotu precedent ever and very worrisome to him and others. Quotations using sarcasim are very problimatical becasue just a literal reading, would lead us to believe he was not concened with sich a common occurance.

Description of Turkey's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. See 644169 for a quote about his popularity.

President Donald Trump was extremely egocentric

This is a woderful example of the brilliant use of language. In response to a typical question literati are asked about reading recomendations for Presidents, he makes a seeiming innocuous recomendation that is withering in his criticism of President Donald Trumps dislike of reading anything extensive and detailed and his penchant for tweeting. It is insulting but very subtly so,

Northam, then the Virginia Lieutenant Governor, was campaigning to be the Virginia Governor. President Donald Tump had been in office less than 4 months, but his approval rating was the lowest in the early stages of a Presidential term of any President since such a measue had been made. Most of the hostility toward Trump was based on his personal characteristics, his prevaricationsm, and inconsistency. However, no politican in modern history had run for a high State position by attacking a President with such strong terms. However, many psychologists and psychiatrists also agreed with Northam who was a Physician as well as a politician.

The inoming President was meeting with and getting briefed by the Director of National Intelligenc, James Clapper and this is the word he used to descrive the American Intelligence Agencies.

There were many people who thought that much of Donald Trump's bizarre behavior was political theater to win the election and that if we were elected, he would shortly normalize his behavior and actions. However, he did not. Then many thought that some of his moore experienced key cabinet officials would normalized him, but they too failed.