Newt Gingrich Quotes

I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

This is just not the Democratic Party we used to know.

My view is that Trump will not change the Republican Party, America's right-of-center party. If he brings in new followers, that's great, and well worth the effort, but he will not change the Republican Party.

John Boehner was and is an unprincipled ward-heeler who simply couldn't weather the transition of the Republican Party from a corporatist party with a sizable conservative base to a purely conservative party.

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.

I haven't left the Republican Party. It left me.

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

I was raised a Republican but I don’t recognize a once proud party that has been hijacked by extremists who are driving it off the flat earth that they pretend we are living on.

Some want to rebrand the GOP, but they will never rebrand conservatives.

I grew up with parents who liked the old line that they didn't leave the Democratic Party - the Democratic Party left them.

I grew up as a Democrat in a very strong Democratic family, but I will tell you that the Democratic Party that exists in this country is not the Democratic Party I grew up around.

The Conservative Party has abandoned conservatives.

I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.

The Democratic Party has succeeded so well that many of its members are now Republicans.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

As a lifelong Republican it's time for me and everybody else to reclaim the soul of the Republican Party.

The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.

I don't intend to leave the Republican Party, but I would like to move the Republican Party more to the center.

Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate.

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson.