Quotations from Speaker Newt Gingrich: on Education


Newt Gingrich: Make universities about Western values, not quaint artifacts

Either we recapture universities for Western values and make them once again useful, or they will become what English universities once were--quaint artifacts where youths go to listen to weird people tell them bizarre things, none of which are real.

I hope the next three Democratic presidential campaigns are run by people conversant with the Kennedy School. Only the Stanford Faculty have been more aggressive in trying to prove they can be more out of touch with the American people than the Kennedy School.

Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler would have admired some of the elite campuses where certain words can get a student expelled.
--The Boston Globe. August 11, 1991

Source: Quotations from Speaker Newt, by A.&P. Bernstein, p. 59 Jan 1, 1995

Newt Gingrich: Voluntary school prayer really does matter

I had a very bright student in the class who said, "Well, do you really think voluntary school prayer matters that much?" And I suddenly realized that I really did think it mattered that much, that I think we are crazy to have driven it out.
--Renewing American Civilization, Class 2

Our liberal national elite doesn't believe in religion.
--Mother Jones 1984

For a generation, the values which were written into the Declaration of Independence. have been eroding; we have carried money saying "In God We Trust," while politicians and the ACLU have driven God out of our public life and institutions.
--Newt's book, "Window of Opportunity"

Source: Quotations from Speaker Newt, by A.&P. Bernstein, p. 62 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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