Newt Gingrich Quotes
There are two things we don’t like to talk about: bad government and bad culture.
Newt Gingrich, U.S. Congressman (Republican, GA), Speaker of the House, Speech, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, March 27, 2008
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Malthus was of the view that population growth often eclipsed the capacity of government and private institutions to support the population. There are even today nations and subpopulations where the economic growth is reasonable but the population growth is greater so that at the end of each year, the average person is poorer and has a lower standard of living. What Malthus did not anticipate is the remarkable productivity growth rate of those institutions like American agriculture, which allo`ws many more people to thrive within a fixed geographic area.
Newton Leroy Gingrich is an American politician and author who served as the 50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 6th congressional district serving north Atlanta and nearby areas from 1979 until his resignation in 1999. In 2012, Gingrich unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for President of the United States.