Quotations from Speaker Newt Gingrich: on Crime


Newt Gingrich: Lock up violent criminals until they're too old for violence

Crime is not a hard problem. We simply lock up violent criminals until they're too old to be violent. That means fewer welfare workers and more police officers and prosecutors and prisons.
--"The Life of the Party," Policy Review. Winter 1990
Source: Quotations from Speaker Newt, by A.&P. Bernstein, p.125 Jan 1, 1995

  • The above quotations are from Quotations from Speaker Newt
    The Little Red, White and Blue Book of the Republican Revolution
    by Newt Gingrich and Amy D. Bernstein.
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