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Newt Gingrich

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Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

Kehidupan

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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.

Kehidupan

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President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

Kehidupan

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A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

Kehidupan

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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.

Kehidupan

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My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results.

Kehidupan

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We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.

Kehidupan

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It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

Kehidupan

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The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

Kehidupan

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Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

Kehidupan

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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, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

Kehidupan

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In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

Kehidupan

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So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.

Kehidupan

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I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.

Kehidupan

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The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Kehidupan

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Only the elites despise earning money.

Kehidupan

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One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

Kehidupan

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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.

Kehidupan

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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Kehidupan

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Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

Kehidupan