Newt Gingrich

“I helped lead the effort to defeat communism in the Congress.”

“I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.”

“Frankly, I would not have made any difference in Vietnam, but much more is what difference it would have made in me.”

“And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking.”

“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.”

“In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision.”

“Only the elites despise earning money.”

“People have to render judgment. In my case, I've said upfront openly, I've made mistakes at times. I've had to go to God for forgiveness. I've had to seek reconciliation. But I'm also a 68-year-old grandfather, and I think people have to measure who I am now and whether I'm a person they can trust.”

“Whether you're talking about Chris Christie, or you're talking about Rick Perry or Scott Walker or John Kasich, there's more interesting evolution at the state level than there is in Washington.”

“Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington.”

“If I had to choose Reaganomics or 13 staffers quitting, I think for the average working American, Reaganomics was a much better deal.”

“I pray before virtually every speech and virtually every major decision.”

“Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal.”

“The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful.”

“I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.”

“My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves.”

“People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz.”

“If you're not in 'The Washington Post' every day, you might as well not exist.”

“All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.”

“I think what you'll find is overall, overwhelmingly, evangelicals would prefer me to Barack Obama.”