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Newt Gingrich would cream Barack Obama in a debate. -- Monica Crowley
Newt Gingrich would be a much better president than Barack Obama. -- Rick Santorum
Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich supported the Wall Street bailout. -- Michele Bachmann
Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself. -- John Podhoretz
I think Newt Gingrich is a Christian; at least, he told me he is. -- Franklin Graham
Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president. -- John Podhoretz
I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results. -- J. C. Watts
Every day I turn on my television set and I see Newt Gingrich on television, I rejoice. -- Martin Frost
Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility. -- John Podhoretz
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people. -- J. C. Watts
Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously. -- Maurice Sendak
I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally and captivate the conservative movement. -- Rick Perry
The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity. -- Moby
That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable. -- Henry Rollins
I'm delighted to make as many people feel ashamed as possible. There's probably a site like that for everybody. I've heard Newt Gingrich has his own as well. -- Dylan Moran
This is a ridiculous heat wave we're in right now, and to contribute, Newt Gingrich said that for the entire month of June, he will stop blowing hot air. -- Bill Maher
Newt Gingrich is one of the brightest people in the Republican Party and he's always been a little unorthodox in his approach to politics, but that's what makes him Newt Gingrich. -- Gary Bauer
There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run. -- Howard Dean
I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one. -- John Lydon
The 1994 elections that brought Newt Gingrich to power in the House decisively shaped the remaining years of Bill Clinton's presidency, pushing him further to the right and bringing out his latent tendency to govern every day as if an election were being held the next. -- Noah Feldman
Newt Gingrich had to work hard - getting Republican candidates to sign the Contract with America - to nationalize the election that swept Republicans to victory in 1994. A Democratic anti-Tea Party campaign would do that for the Republicans - nationalize the election, gratis - in 2010. -- Charles Krauthammer
Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force. -- Charlie Norwood
Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt. -- J. C. Watts
What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. -- Barney Frank
I was one of the hardest-hitting conservatives on George W. Bush. Republicans didn't like me on George W. Bush. Republicans still don't like me on many things. If any Republican thinks I've been hard on Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or any of these guys, wait until Mitt Romney gets into office. I'll hold his feet to the fire just as much. -- Glenn Beck
Newt Gingrich is against same-sex marriage. Well, actually, he's against same-marriage sex. -- David Letterman
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian. -- Adam Hochschild
If Newt Gingrich would be President tomorrow, I would be a happy person. -- Laura Ingraham
There's no reason you'd shoot Mother Theresa and Newt Gingrich the same way. -- Gregory Heisler
Between Newt Gingrich, [Rudi] Giuliani and Chris Christie, they've got like the trifecta of misogyny. -- Star Jones
Unlike Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, I never voted to provide taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood. -- Ron Paul
Newt Gingrich gave voice to something that was said throughout this campaign from Democrats and Republicans. -- Chuck Todd
Osama bin Laden was living in that compound with three wives. It's like he was Newt Gingrich. -- David Letterman
Beating Newt Gingrich in a popularity contest is like beating Stephen Hawking in 'Dancing with the Stars.' -- Bill Maher
Newt Gingrich had a horrible week in the Iowa caucuses. Only 13 percent of his ex-wives voted for him. -- David Letterman
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel. -- James McBride
Newt Gingrich called it [Donald] Trump`s biggest mistake since he won the election, these crazy accusations about voter fraud. -- Chuck Todd
My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again. -- Stephen Colbert
He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber. -- Al Franken
Newt Gingrich got in hot water during his 2012 presidential race for using campaign funds to pay himself $47,000 for a mailing list. -- Chris Hayes
Newt Gingrich's campaign is broke. All the money gone. So now he's charging $50 for a photo. And for $100 you can marry him. -- David Letterman
Newt Gingrich has criticized 'New York elites' who ride the subway. One of those subway elites threw up on my pants this morning. -- David Letterman
Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people. -- Daniel Schorr
This is what Newt Gingrich has wrought - is a politics in which it's very easy to destroy and very hard to build. -- George Packer
Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into the 18th century. -- David Letterman
He's not a bold decision maker like Newt Gingrich is. Every time I talk to him, he says 'well let me think about it.' -- Sheldon Adelson
You all know Newt Gingrich. Newt is short for Newton. People say if that's the case, what is Mitt short for? It's short for 'Mittens.' -- David Letterman
Newt Gingrich...is absolutely for bombing Iran and for lowering gas prices. And I've just to say, you can't be for both. They are diametrically opposed. -- Bill Maher
Then you got Newt Gingrich up here who - didn't he leave his wife while she was dying to marry the next wife? Give me a break, Newt. -- Star Jones
Newt Gingrich wants to build a colony on the Moon. OK, you say, but why? Well, he wants to be the first American to get divorced on the Moon. -- David Letterman
Newt Gingrich and his fellow conservative Republicans talked a good game but, despite the lip service they offered about poverty and race and other social issues, they didn't really mean it. -- Arianna Huffington
I think all of these things, there are always names floated - Newt Gingrich's name is out there. Sometimes you just want to make the loyalists happy by floating those names. -- George Stephanopoulos
Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language. -- Pete du Pont
The biggest threat to any politician is an artist. Comedians unleashed can do a great deal of damage. David Letterman can do more damage than any Republican assault by Newt Gingrich. -- Michael Moriarty
Newt Gingrich says he wants to get rid of Social Security. Who is more qualified to give this country financial advice than a guy who ran up a half-million dollar bill at Tiffany? -- David Letterman
A group called the Texas Tea Party Patriots is hosting a debate next month where Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain will go head to head, while people watching that will go head to pillow. -- Jimmy Fallon
Newt Gingrich is an incredible leader. He is a leader of our time, and he's going to lead us into the future. And we're going to accomplish the things that we've all dreamed of. -- Tom DeLay
Reagan was president and had Democrats control the House and Senate, and they reformed the tax code. Clinton was president, and he had Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole; they reformed welfare and balanced the budget. -- Kevin McCarthy
I just think it's weird that Donald Trump wants to be an executive producer of a TV show while he's President of the United States. I agree with Newt Gingrich. He doesn't have to do that. -- Claire McCaskill
Tonight was the CNN primary debate with the four remaining candidates. It was kind of a change for Newt Gingrich. Usually when he's arguing with three people at once, it's his wife, his ex-wife, and his mistress. -- Jay Leno
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It looks to me like the Republican Party`s in no mood to give them a reasonable choice with this clown show going on right now from the likes of, well, Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump. What a duo. -- Chris Matthews
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Newt Gingrich said that this executive producer is weird and it raises - does raise questions about possible conflicts. The FCC regulates NBC corporations can try to curry favor with the president by placing their products on the show [Celebrity Apprentice]. -- George Stephanopoulos
Politicians such as Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich along with talking heads such as Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and Anne Coulter are not the problem, they are symptomatic of a much more disturbing assault on critical thought, if not rational thinking itself. -- Henry Giroux
In a social media age, it seems that everyone lives in their own reality and that when you give consideration to Newt Gingrich, he exists in an alternate reality, at some level, where the things he says are so diametrically opposed to the record. -- Steve Schmidt
There's a huge cost in being bipartisan, a tradition started by Newt Gingrich when he took over the House in 1994 and has continued forward, that you dare not vote against the Republican Party even if you're voting against your own initiatives and your own interests. -- Gwen Moore
Newt Gingrich was campaigning at a zoo this week and he was bitten by a penguin. Newt Gingrich is always campaigning at zoos. Mitt Romney once did a photo op at a zoo. That was a big mistake, because he stood next to the chameleon, and HE changed colors. -- Bill Maher
In an unlikely pairing, Hillary Clinton made an appearance this week with Newt Gingrich to push a health care plan. The press is making a big deal out this thing with Newt but, hey, if anyone knows how to appear in public with a man she can't stand, it's Hillary. -- Jay Leno
You could see Newt Gingrich, who`s a member of Donald Trump`s country club, already getting together and talking about the new episode of "The Apprentice," with the poor kids in the city.This was a very smart thing to do. He shows that he is the grown-up in the Republican Party. -- Chris Matthews
I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or the highway. -- Bob Dole
I think [Newt] Gingrich who`s been the - among the truth tellers to [Donald] Trump, I think, in public, take a listen. -- Chuck Todd

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