Quotations from Speaker Newt Gingrich: on War & Peace


Newt Gingrich: LBJ misled the American people about war in Asia

In my lifetime, without question, the President who lied the most and did the most damage to the United States was Lyndon Johnson. It was Johnson who misled the American people about war in Asia. It was Johnson who designed a disastrous economic policy that fueled the inflation from which we are only now recovering. It was Johnson's politics of irresponsible promises which led to riots on the campuses and in the cities. It was Johnson's "Great Society" which is smothering us in red tape, fiscal deficits and massive bureaucracy.
--Speech, "The survival of the Two-Party System" (Ingram Library, West Georgia College) 1976
Source: Quotations from Speaker Newt, by A.&P. Bernstein, p. 82-3 Jan 1, 1995

Newt Gingrich: Use air power against every position everywhere

I think the United States should ask General (Colin) Powell. to visit the Bosnian Serb leadership and say to them, "If you launch a general offensive, we should reserve the right to use air power against every position you have. Against every command-and-control center, against every position everywhere.". I would do it all with air power, but I would do it like Desert Storm and I would do it like 1972 (when the U.S. bombed North Vietnam). I would not do it when Nixon used B-52s against North Vietnam. I would not engage in this nonsensical, "you shoot one missile at us, we'll drop one bomb." This is the dumbest--this is as though Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam never occurred.
--Meet the Press. December 4, 1994
Source: Quotations from Speaker Newt, by A.&P. Bernstein, p.147 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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