Newt Gingrich Quotes

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

The struggle, begun this morning upon the hustings of your old town, is not a struggle between two men—it is a struggle between two countries. On the one side, the side of the Whig candidate, hangs the red banner beneath which your senate has been sacked, your commerce has been wrecked, your nobility has been dishonored, your peasants have been starved. On the other side … floats the green flag beneath which your senate sat, your commerce thrived, your nobility honored, your peasants prospered.

It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.

Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged.

What's dangerous is the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few individuals.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

The middle class serves as a bridge between the haves and the have-nots. If it goes, so goes political stability.

The middle class of this country, our historic backbone and our best hope for a strong society in the future, is losing its place at the table.

The United States economy is like a poker game where the chips have become concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, and where the other fellows can stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit runs out the game will stop.

If class warfare isn’t the richest of the rich fighting tooth and nail against unions and any tax increases while record numbers of people lose their homes, what is?

If the upper classes, through their political representatives, pass legislation that diminishes the income of the middle class and reduces services to the poor and further enrich the affluent, this is not class warfare. But if the middle class and the poor, and their representatives, complain that this is unfair, that is class warfare. So say some of our politicians who oppose class warfare.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

Class warfare is being waged in America, and the wrong side is winning.

You have six of the ten wealthiest counties in America surround Washington, D.C., and the poor and middle class are getting squeezed while people at the top and people with influence in government seem always to be doing better.

I'm really sick of the 'one percent' that is taking all the money from this country, draining the middle class, making it nonexistent.

You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone.

The world belongs to the wealthy, and nowhere is this injustice more apparent than in the workplace.

The American middle class has always existed to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable: settled values with unsettled ones, social mobility with a sense of permanence.

Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.