Newt Gingrich Quotes

Liberalism has become a special kind of stupid, and it's on full display now, which I think ultimately has the potential to be a good thing.

There are lots of bad Republicans, there are no good Democrats.

We will have a government where liberals will stay in power until they get radical and conservatives will have the power until they get reactionary.

Bill Clinton is a moderate Democrat. I'm a democratic socialist.

Once in a while, we need the hard Left to pipe up.

I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck.

When most people see the word "radical," they think that it must refer to something left wing. Some people also may think of it as referring to far right-wing marginal groups. But here we have a president of the United States [George W. Bush] at the center of power, sitting in the White House, who is a radical.

In the Republican party, crazy is a constituency.

The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy.

The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have been more helpful to the success of the National-Socialist (Nazi) movement than the methods used by the "progressives," denouncing Nazism as a party serving the interests of "capital." The German workers knew this tactic too well to be deceived by it again.

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 the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party.

In any society, there will be the whole spectrum of views. You will get the extremists on the far right and also the far left.

Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

I say Republicans aren't right all the time. Democrats aren't wrong all the time - now, maybe most of the time, but not all the time.

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.

Bill Clinton is a classic, old-school Southern pragmatic Democrat.

Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne.

Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.

We started out as far to the left as we could.

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

The fact is that the Democratic Party in modern times has always had a conservative wing, one frequently as strong or stronger than its liberal wing, and as such, when progressives speak of the party as a vehicle that naturally belongs to them, as if by right - until conservatives stole it from them - they weaken progressivism.

We don't like to deal with people who are trying to kill the revolution. You need to hire a Republican!

It [is] natural that in the vibration of the political pendulum, it should go from one extreme to another.