A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

— Newt Gingrich

Because I am much like Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, I'm such an unconventional political figure that you really need to design a unique campaign that fits the way I operate.

— Newt Gingrich

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.

— Newt Gingrich

I clearly have done things that were wrong. I've clearly had to seek God's forgiveness.

— Newt Gingrich

I discourage a cult of personality.

— Newt Gingrich

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter-century.

— Newt Gingrich

If you take all the money we've spent at NASA since we landed on the moon, and you had applied that money for incentives to the private sector, we would today probably have a permanent station on the moon, three or four permanent stations in space, a new generation of lift vehicles.

— Newt Gingrich

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.

— Newt Gingrich

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic Buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

— Newt Gingrich

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

— Newt Gingrich