Quotations from Speaker Newt Gingrich: on Drugs


Newt Gingrich: I used marijuana at a party once; it had no effect

The historical record is that 19 years ago, I used marijuana once at a party. in New Orleans. It didn't have any effect on me. As a matter of fact, I never went back and revisited it.
--The Washington Post, November 8, 1987
Source: Quotations from Speaker Newt, by A.&P. Bernstein, p. 11 Jan 1, 1995

Newt Gingrich: Permissive attitudes lead to considering legalizing drugs

Look at the preachments of the Surgeon General [Joycelyn Elders] and ask yourself how could a President have a surgeon general who has suggested we consider legalizing drugs, who said at one point that she didn't see that selling cocaine was necessarily an illegal act, who has basically taken positions that are not just anti- Catholic but they, in effect, represent an attitude towards permissive sexuality that by any reasonable standard in a middle-class sense is destructive, and ask yourself why does the President keep her? I assume he shares her values. I assume he thinks it's okay.
--Elders was fired by President Clinton a few days later when comments she made at a UN conference about masturbation were about to be reported. Meet the Press, December 4, 1994
Source: Quotations from Speaker Newt, by A.&P. Bernstein, p. 90 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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