Quotations from Speaker Newt Gingrich: on Health Care


Newt Gingrich: Replace expensive, red-tape-ridden, litigious system

Replacing welfare with workfare and ending a process by which teenage mothers have children outside marriage with ignorant, irresponsible male children who have sex but are not the fathers would be a revolution. Having schools that are disciplined, require homework and beat the Japanese in math and science would be a revolution. Replacing the most expensive, red-tape-hidden litigious health care system in the world with a revitalized, health-oriented private system we can afford, and that would be available to everyone, would be a revolution. Having government bureaucracies that are lean, efficient, courteous, and customer-service-oriented would be a revolution.
--Congressional Record January 3,1992.
Source: Quotations from Speaker Newt, by A.&P. Bernstein, p. 29 Jan 1, 1995

Newt Gingrich: Socialized medicine designed to seize control of system

It is astonishing to me--in this era of widespread and well-deserved disillusionment with big government--that so many well-informed, concerned citizens would want to nationalize and bureaucratize American medicine. We only need to look at the postal and public school systems to learn that nationalization means neither efficiency nor economy and at the telephone system to learn that private monopolies also have their flaws.
--Unidentified newspaper article in Ingram Library, West Georgia College, 1974

There has been a 50-year-long war between the Left, which loves socialized medicine, loves coercive centralized bureaucratic power. and the rest of us. And they're very smart. They always conceal their greed for power in the language of love.
--Mother Jones. October 1989

Source: Quotations from Speaker Newt, by A.&P. Bernstein, p.138-9 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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