Newt Gingrich Quotes

Verbal contracts are about as useful as a fart on a treadmill.

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.

I believe we have been fleeced.

The Republicans insisted on 60 days to review this deal but most of them made up their mind in less than 5 minutes.

I am against any reconciliation with Israel. I do not even recognize the presence of a state that is called "Israel." I consider its presence both unjust and unlawful. That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

When diplomats meet, they are, of necessity, ambiguous, in order to get an agreement.

It seems to me to matter little whether you have an alliance which is committed to paper, or whether you have an understanding in the minds of the statesmen of the respective countries.

It's much better to have a good agreement than a quick agreement.

Repudiation. That’s what nations do when they don’t like agreements. They repudiate them.

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace – but a peace I hope with honour.

Too often ... in statecraft the object is to reach an agreement, which is only sometime—not always—the way to reach a result.

Boundary and peace treaties are not inspired documents.

Pacta illegalia non sevanda sunt. Illegal agreements are not to be enforced.

I am not certain whether we can afford your friendship, be it eternal or merely temporary. I fail to see the difference between what you define as friendship and what civilized nations call enmity.

Do not worry about the side agreements on labor. They are too full of loopholes to pose any threat.

There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.

Success of negotiations cannot be guaranteed. If there is no attempt, then failure is guaranteed.

The formation of a treaty often requires secrecy and dispatch …

The Armistice Agreement has, in effect, become a blank piece of paper without any effect or significance.

Concluding a trade agreement is like pole-vaulting. Everything must come together at once. After the extensive preparation and the building of momentum, there is that one giant leap—with the hope that the entire body will go over the bar.

It’s hard to cut a deal if you don’t know who to make a deal with.