Newt Gingrich Quotes

We had a revolution 2 years ago, and we see a people moving from a completely authoritarian system into a democracy. They don’t know how democracy works. They don’t know the ingredients of a democracy.

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.

Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy.

Will Iraq be a democracy? The question is, 'Will America be a democracy?'

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.

Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that.

My goal for the Arab world is to change the status quo, which is horrible politically, religiously, economically, in every way.

I couldn’t believe that this could happen in the Arab world.

Democracy is an open wound that the East has been carrying for centuries.

You don’t go from tyranny to democracy overnight.

Democracy and economic reform go together.

The desire for a democratic political system does not by itself create the capacity for establishing one.

Once confined to a handful of wealthy countries, it [democracy] became, in a short period of time, the most popular political system in the world. In 1900, only 10 countries were democracies. By mid-century, the number had increased to 30…. By 2005 fully 119 of the world’s 190 countries had become democracies.

Democracy will not come to Mexico as the result of supposedly optimal policies prescribed by self-appointed saviors bent on economic stabilization.

The idea that if governments open up and become more democratic they will fall is a false dilemma.

It's strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.

I'm absolutely confident that the actions we took in Iraq are influencing reformers and freedom lovers in the greater Middle East. And I believe that you're going to see the rise of democracy in many countries in the broader Middle East, which will lay the foundation for peace.

If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.

I firmly believe that a free Iraq will be a catalyst to other substantive and important changes in that part of the world.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.