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“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”
― Newt Gingrich

“jihadists and yes, we need to identify and stop him before he unifies Islamic terrorists.”
― Newt Gingrich, Duplicity

“that America will never be happy till she gets clear of foreign dominion. Wars, without ceasing, will break out till that period arrives, and the Continent must in the end be conqueror; for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.”
― Newt Gingrich, To Try Men's Souls

“Of course the results of the election were shocking at the time, but in hindsight, they were consistent with the trends of previous elections. Trump continued to build on Republican advantages with the middle class and the non-college educated whites. Meanwhile, the power of identity liberalism to boost turnout among the minority community proved to be a mirage. African American turnout was down significantly from 2008 and 2012 without the nation's first black president on the ticket. And Trump actually increased the share of the vote received from African Americans and Hispanic over Mitt Romney. It turns out the identity liberalism even alienates members of minority groups more concerned about economic issues than niche social justice fights.

Furthermore, Donald Trump was making an appeal based on identity as well -- that of being an American. His patriotic call to Make America Great Again overwhelmed explicit appeals to race, gender and sexual orientation. This universal appeal based on broad issues and common culture trumped identity liberalism.”
― Newt Gingrich, Understanding Trump

“Do you men still know how to fight?” he (GW) roared.
A primal cry erupted around him.
“Then fall in and show those redcoats over there” — he pointed back to the advancing British — “how Americans can stand and fight for their freedom!”
― Newt Gingrich, Valley Forge

“A good officer learned to take care of the feet of his men first, and from there their stomachs and hearts. By that means, he could motivate their souls.”
― Newt Gingrich and William R Forstchen, To Try Men's Souls

“First, Trump and congressional Republicans should abandon Washington's obsession with comprehensive reform. Health is the largest sector of the American economy -- 18 percent of GDP -- and the most complex. Comprehensive legislation that affects one-fifth of our economy would be so complicated no one would understand it, and gaining majority support -- much less bipartisan support -- would be impossible.

Instead, health reform needs a slower-paced, transparent, simultaneous, issue-by-issue legislative approach. A series of hearings must be held to gather information and develop specific reforms that will improve health and health care. These hearings would have geographic as well as topical focuses so different citizens in different regions of the country will understand how the bill will affect them personally.”
― Newt Gingrich, Understanding Trump

“Second, successful health reform will require a much more morally compelling, persuasive style of communication than Republicans are used to. Eight years of opposing Obama and the temptation to remain negative will be hard to unlearn, but it is essential to governing.”
― Newt Gingrich, Understanding Trump

“Johnson describes a scene that played out in the summer of 1940.

The Germans had swept through Poland and France, and Marshall called in the American army chief of the cavalry to find out how he planned to respond to the German blitz. The cavalry chief told Marshall he had analyzed the German attack, understood why the Polish cavalry had failed against the German tanks, and knew what they needed to do better. He suggested to Marshall that the allies should develop trucks that could carry the cavalry up to the battlefield, so the horses would be fresh.

Marshall thanked him, concluded the meeting, and immediately called in Beetle Smith to have the commandant retired as of noon and have the post of cavalry chief abolished.”
― Newt Gingrich, Understanding Trump

“It was based on the style of supply-side economics practiced and advocated for by economists Art Laffer, Larry Kudlow, and others during the Reagan administration. Laffer argued that there is a maximum marginal tax rate that will generate the maximum possible tax revenues in an economy. Raising the marginal tax rate beyond this ideal point leads to a slowdown in economic activity and ultimately yields fewer tax revenues. Therefore, lowering a high marginal tax rate to a certain point can spur economic growth enough to match—or overcome—any shortage with new tax revenues.”
― Newt Gingrich, Trump’s Triumph

“I don’t do it for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That’s how I get my kicks.”
― Newt Gingrich, Understanding Trump

“Hopefully, Donald Trump is just warming up. There is a lot of swamp to drain.”
― Newt Gingrich, Understanding Trump

“Certainly, it is important to be polite, and nobody should think that using racial or ethnic slurs is acceptable. But political correctness has morphed from a desire to avoid needlessly offending people to a tool of the Left to marginalize and vilify reasonable Americans who disagree with the elite liberal agenda.”
― Newt Gingrich, Understanding Trump

“Strange how this war was making them all Americans.”
― Newt Gingrich and William R Forstchen

“He called for all Americans to celebrate their differences but to never forget we are one people under God. At the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America, and through our loyalty to our country, we will rediscover our loyalty to each other. When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, ‘How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.’ We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity. When America is united, America is totally unstoppable. This passage is important, because it expresses an aspect of President Trump’s personality that is completely overlooked by the media. To Trump, bigotry cannot exist within a patriotic heart. To be racist—to hold any other American in low regard based on their gender, religion, race or heritage—is to be completely unpatriotic.”
― Newt Gingrich, Understanding Trump

“Health is a moral issue. It is about life and death first. Money comes second.

Trump and the Republicans' vision for health care reform must be about more than repealing Obamacare. It must be about more than insurance. It must create a clear, positive path for twenty-first-century health and health care.”
― Newt Gingrich, Understanding Trump

“President Trump expressed one simple fact in his inaugural address that has eluded so many of America’s recent presidents: his primary job is to lead the United States. Trump doesn’t want to be the president of the international order, or president of some collective group of nations. He is—and only wants to be—the president of one country”
― Newt Gingrich, Understanding Trump

“1809, General John Stark, the most famous New Hampshire soldier in the Revolutionary War, wrote a toast for an anniversary celebration of the Battle of Bennington. That battle mattered because the Americans defeated the British and helped force General John Burgoyne into surrendering—an event that led to a surge of support for American independence. General Stark’s toast echoed the sentiments of Wallace when he said: “Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils.” Today, “live free or die” is the New Hampshire state motto.”
― Newt Gingrich, Beyond Biden: Rebuilding the America We Love

“His response was priceless. After a moment of thought, he said, "$70 to 80 million: that would be a yacht. This would be a lot more fun than a yacht!"

That's when Callista and I learned that a Trump candidacy was likely -- and a Trump presidency was possible.”
― Newt Gingrich, Understanding Trump

“Certainly, it is importat to be polite, and nobody should think that using racial or ethnic slurs is acceptable. But political correctness has morphed from a desire to avoid needlessly offending people to a tool of the Left to marginalize and vilify resonable Americans who disagree with the elite liberal agenda.”
― Newt Gingrich, Understanding Trump

“Widely known as the best horseman in the colonies, Washington was so strong he could break a walnut between his thumb and first finger. Washington”
― Newt Gingrich, To Try Men's Souls

“Every American should be able to expect certain standards, freedoms, benefits, and opportunities form a twenty-first-century health system. If they are willing to participate and be responsible, they will gain:
•Improved health;
•Longer lives with a much better quality of life;
•A more convenient, understandable and personalized experience -- all at a lower cost;
•Access to the best course of treatment for their particular illness and their unique characteristics;
•A system that fosters and encourages innovation, competition, and better outcomes for patients;
•A system that truly values the impact that medical innovation has on patients and their caregivers as well as on society as a whole;
•A government that facilitates and accelerates extraordinary opportunities to improve health and health care;
•Continuous but unobtrusive 24/7 monitoring of their general health, chronic conditions, and acute health problems;
•Access to the most modern medical knowledge and breakthroughs, including the most advanced technologies, therapies and drugs, unimpeded by government-imposed price controls or rationing;
•The chance to increase their personal knowledge by learning from a transparent system of information about their diagnosis, costs and alternative solutions;
•A continuously improving, competitive, patient-focused medical world in which new therapies, new technologies, and new drugs are introduced as rapidly and safely as possible -- and not a day later;
•Greater price and market competition, innovation and smarter health care spending;
•A system of financing that includes insurance, government, charities, and self-funding that ensures access to health and health care for every American at the lowest possible cost without allowing financing and short-term budgetary considerations to distort and weaken the delivery of care;
•Genuine insurance to facilitate access to dramatically better care, rather than the current system, which is myopically focused on monthly or annual payments;
•A health system in which third parties and government bureaucrats do not impede the best course of treatment that doctors and their patients decide on;
•A health system in which seniors, veterans, or others under government health programs receive the same quality of care as their children in private markt systems.

Big reforms are required to transform today’s expensive, obsolete health bureaucracy into a system that conforms to these principles.”
― Newt Gingrich, Understanding Trump

“However, as Franklin warned in the New-England Courant in 1722, “in those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything else his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation, must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”9”
― Newt Gingrich, Trump's America: The Truth about Our Nation's Great Comeback

“In theory, intersectionality builds coalitions by getting different minority groups to recognize that their griefs all have common, intersecting causes. In practice, it breeds division and resentment among the coalition it is trying to build.

Rather than leveling an alleged racial- and gender-based hierarchy of power, it inverts it, putting the supposedly least privileged persons at the top. The result is a self-narrowing bullying culture of privilege checking, because each group is trying to one-up the others in the rankings of who is most oppressed so that their niche concerns receive the most attention. Intersectionality replaces the call to recognize our shared humanity and the common goal of equal rights with a compulsion to divide us into smaller and smaller groups.”
― Newt Gingrich, Understanding Trump

“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of the hard work you already did!”
― Newt Gingrich

“if you knock down every law in pursuit of the devil, then the laws are gone when the devil turns on you.”
― Newt Gingrich, Defeating Big Government Socialism: Saving America's Future

“President Trump went on to say: That all changes starting right here and right now because this moment is your moment, it belongs to you.… What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. January 20, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.”
― Newt Gingrich, Understanding Trump

“economics practiced and advocated for by economists Art Laffer, Larry Kudlow, and others during the Reagan administration. Laffer argued that there is a maximum marginal tax rate that will generate the maximum possible tax revenues in an economy. Raising the marginal tax rate beyond this ideal point leads to a slowdown in economic activity and ultimately yields fewer tax revenues. Therefore, lowering a high marginal tax rate to a certain point can spur economic growth enough to match—or overcome—any shortage”
― Newt Gingrich, Trump’s Triumph

“that America will never be happy till she gets clear of foreign dominion.”
― Newt Gingrich, To Try Men's Souls

“in 1809, General John Stark, the most famous New Hampshire soldier in the Revolutionary War, wrote a toast for an anniversary celebration of the Battle of Bennington. That battle mattered because the Americans defeated the British and helped force General John Burgoyne into surrendering—an event that led to a surge of support for American independence. General Stark’s toast echoed the sentiments of Wallace when he said: “Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils.” Today, “live free or die” is the New Hampshire state motto.”
― Newt Gingrich, Beyond Biden: Rebuilding the America We Love