Newt Gingrich

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

“And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.”

“We have big ideas. I just think that's part of how you campaign. You talk to the American people about big things.”

“President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.”

“You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.”

“I think conservatives can be for very tough-minded trade.”

“Is the purpose of free elections to allow the most clever and vicious person to aggregate power, or is the purpose of free elections to enable the American people to have a serious conversation about their country's future and try to find both a policy and a personality that they think will carry to them that better future?”

“Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.”

“Philosophically, I am very different from normal politicians, and normal consultants found that very hard to deal with.”

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

“While abolishing judgeships and lower federal courts is a blunt tool and one whose use is warranted only in the most extreme of circumstances... it is one of many possibilities to check and balance the judiciary.”

“We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?”

“Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess.”

“I think my health is probably fine. Let's be honest, you never know what could happen to somebody, but I think I'm in very good shape right now.”

“I got active in this business of politics and self-government in 1958 when my father, who was serving in the U.S. Army, took us to the battlefield of Verdun.”

“Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and terrorists who are dangerous already and who would be brutal in power if given the chance.”

“Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.”

“I read 'Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them,' and I found frightening pieces that related to... my own life.”

“Islamic extremism may well be the greatest threat to Western values and Western security in the world.”

“If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.”