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Former U.S. Representative

Newt Gingrich is a former U.S. Representative from Georgia and the 50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1995 to 1999. He is recognized for his conservative political stance and his leadership in the Republican Revolution of 1994.

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“The national media are doing everything they can to suppress bad news about Hillary Clinton and everything they can to maximize bad news about Donald Trump.”

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“To suggest that it's OK to assassinate a president, I think is a felony. And I think that it should be.”

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“You can't talk about attacking or assassinating the President of the United States and you shouldn't be able to.”

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“I think If I were to look for the most foolish Clinton supporter and ask you to give them equal time nationally, I could find you some pretty nutty people who are for Hillary Clinton.”

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“I think there's no question that everything possible is being done to stop Donald Trump and you're seeing a case study in how hard it is to be outsider and the double standard of the national media, particularly if you're a conservative outsider.”

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“There's a Big Trump and there's a Little Trump.”

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“The Big Trump is a historic figure. The Big Trump beat 16 other people for the nomination. The Big Trump is creating issues that make the establishment very uncomfortable. The Little Trump frankly gets out - is stupid. I mean, that comment just then is dumb. And I don't defend him when he wanders off; I've told him over and over.”

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“You know, presidents have to be disciplined, and in that sense Hillary Clinton is probably better trained to be president, just because she's the most corrupt person to ever get the nomination of a major party.”

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“Hillary Clinton is lying again and again.”

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“Leadership matters and solving things before a crisis is important.”

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“Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.”

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“The key is to remember there is a tomorrow morning. The dance will continue.”

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“Nothing gets done (in Congress) unless it's bipartisan. And the reason that matters is that it's a function of reality.”

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“With Bill Clinton, there were things I had to have and things I couldn't have. Clinton had things he had to have and things he couldn't have. And there was space in the middle where you could have a deal.”

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“Money really, really matters.”

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“Hillary Clinton has built a huge machine. Donald Trump's asset is people on Facebook and twitter. He can communicate with them eight or 10 times a day with no money. This is a different world.”

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“I'm moderately optimistic. We Americans are an enormous country with more than 300 million people so there's reason for optimism.”

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“I am excited about the next generation of leaders. I have a hunch there will be a whole group of people who will decide they will stand up; I know people 15 years old asking me how to get into politics. So we will have a steady stream of new blood.”

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“Donald Trump's not a sexual predator.”

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“I think Donald Trump needs to set a direction that allows people who are deeply opposed to Obamacare to realize it's gradually going to be reformed and rethought.”

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“Donald Trump was elected by people who believe Washington has too much power.”

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“The Washington bureaucracy is too arrogant and imperial.”

Arrogant Bureaucracy

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“If Trump remains honest and seems like a person who's authentic, he's going to go a long way.”

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“If under the pressure of Washington Donald Trump starts dissembling and saying things that aren't true, he'll decay as much as Obama did well on that.”

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“America is not a country that wanders around trusting people with power. This is a country that wants accountability.”

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“The Constitution gives the president of the United States an extraordinarily wide grant of authority to use the power of the pardon.”

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“Donald Trump has to understand and his family has to understand that there is a public interest which transcends them.”

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“America is a country in which 75 percent of the people believe there's widespread corruption. We have got to go back to re-establishing a sense of trust. That has to be an assignment Trump takes personally. And that has to be more than trust me because trust me never works in the long run as a model. It's just - it's not possible.”

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“Donald Trump is my leader. And if he decides to drop the swamp and the alligator, I will drop the swamp and the alligator.”

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“Donald Trump is a very action-oriented person.”

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“Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of common sense that is pretty hard to deal with.”

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“You cannot compare America and Russia.”

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“Russia is modernizing its nuclear systems. They're moving toward more effective tactical nuclear systems. They're moving toward delivery systems designed to evade anti-ballistic missile defenses. The Russians are investing, by the way, in robotic weapons, including a potential robotic tank. Their investment in new technology, I suspect, outweighs all of the European defense research and development spending combined.”

“I suspect that Donald Trump is going to be very tough with those countries that don't spend at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. He will ask them why should we allow a free-ride policy.”

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“NATO is an alliance, so all parts of the alliance have to be capable.”

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“I expect that Trump believes we do not have an obligation to have a Cold War with Russia, but that he is very cautious.”

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“Donald Trump is the one who said if somebody really wants an arms race, we'll drown him.”

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“I'm a little tired of people who have very big moral positions and very small power in reality.”

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“I think Putin has already gotten used to the idea of Obama and his secretary of state, John Kerry, making noise - it just doesn't seem to impress Moscow at all.”

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“I think Donald Trump thinks of Putin as being a strong person, and I think he thinks of himself as being a very strong person. But I don't think in any way that he thinks of the Putin government as a desirable model.”

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“I think Donald Trump is very, very cautious about nuclear weapons, and he's seriously concerned. And this might be one of the reasons he wants to deal with Putin carefully, because he's aware of how many nuclear weapons Putin has, and that Russian doctrine is much more open about using nuclear weapons than is American doctrine.”

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“As the largest market on the planet, I'm not particularly worried about countries that want to start a trade war with America. I think they would end up losing.”

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“You know, you try to move the Brussels bureaucracy, and unless you have some capacity to really break it, you can't move it. It just sits there and stares at you.”

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“Remember, most of the bureaucrats voted for Hillary Clinton. Most of the bureaucrats deeply dislike what Trump is trying to accomplish, and most of the bureaucrats think they can't be fired, so they can outlast you.”

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“I think that Donald Trump is very concerned about finding the right way to be effective in a responsible way. And he wants to be effective.”

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“Donald Trump really is who he is, and I think, for example, he'll probably tweet his entire life - and that's a fact. I just hope people get over it.”

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“Every president developed his own style. You know that we don't recruit them to a certain standard.”

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“Donald Trump has a grand direction. He doesn't have a grand strategy. He wants to re-establish American authority and power and to relaunch the American economy.”

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“America is fed up with political correctness, and it is fed up with government that doesn't work. It's fed up with weakness being interpreted as wisdom.”

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“America is an enormous country with enormous resources. The basic American spirit creates the Wright Brothers and Henry Ford and Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. Once we start rolling, we're pretty formidable. And the incompetence of the government is so massive that even a moderately good executive could regain much ground pretty rapidly. Donald Trump is a very good executive.”

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Born: June 17, 1943
Known for: Former U.S. Representative
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