Quotations from Speaker Newt Gingrich: on Government Reform


Newt Gingrich: Americans want public officials to live a Christian life

My wife, Jackie, and I have spent a number of years working with young people both through my profession as a teacher and once again as we both teach at our Church's Sunday School. These years have taught us the importance of setting an example in all the things that we might do or attempt to do, an example that would help our young people believe in the Georgia virtues of honesty, sincerity and integrity. I don't think it is asking too much when the American people want their public officials to practice those virtues and to live a Christian life.
--Gingrich "Congressgram," issued during his second unsuccessful election campaign (Ingram Library, West Georgia College) Spring 1976
Source: Quotations from Speaker Newt, by A.&P. Bernstein, p. 13 Jan 1, 1995

Newt Gingrich: I believe in lean bureaucracy, not in no bureaucracy

I believe in lean bureaucracy, not in no bureaucracy. You can have an active, aggressive, conservative state which does not in fact have a large centralized bureaucracy. This goes back to Teddy Roosevelt. We have not seen an activist conservative presidency since TR.
--Mother Jones , November 1984

You can walk into a Wal-Mart store today and have your credit card approved in 2.3 seconds. And yet it takes the Veterans Department six weeks to answer your letter. We Republicans see the efficiency of Wal-Mart and of UPS; we want to change government to be as courteous, efficient, speedy, and effective as those companies. The Democrats see those companies, and they want to apply litigation, regulation, and taxation to make sure the companies become more like government.
--Speech, Republican National Convention in Houston. August 18, 1992

Source: Quotations from Speaker Newt, by A.&P. Bernstein, p. 72-3 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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