Newt Gingrich Quotes

We will never be able to fix a rigged system by counting on the same people who rigged it in the first place.

I think 'The Wire' is my all-time favorite TV show. It's so brilliant, the way it critiques society, and how it handles that everybody who gets power loses their moral code and stops going to the root of the problem and just tries to maintain their own power.

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.

The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.

Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

Why the best men do not get into politics.

Year after year we do not get reform as a result of scandals; we simply get more scandals.

History shows that more democracy is not a magic pill that will make institutionalized corruption will go away.

Not a single Arab ruler is a willing participant in democratic reform. Their regimes are festooned with opportunists attached to their financial and political privileges.

The two old parties … fight only for office. Observe how utterly both parties in this respect lack program and new leadership.

Signs everywhere now show a great moral awakening—the cleaning out of rotten business & still more rotten policies. But we’ve only begun! For the first time, men were questioning the fundamentals of democracy, inquiring whether we truly had self-government in America, or whether it had been corrupted by selfish interests. This questioning came not alone from what one might call the working class, but from middle America as well.

What matters is that the majority of American people have become complacent in a senseless injustice that occurs all around them. What matters is that most American politicians have become more easily swayed by money than by the people who voted them into office.

The NYPD is just a branch of corruption connected to a giant, corrupt tree called the United States government.

Jindal's record in Louisiana is controversial, in part because, in a state which has historically favored patronage culture and a bureaucracy that offered uninterrupted employment for those who backed the right horse, he aimed to destroy the old spoils system.

It's tempting, when confronted by political malfeasance, to become so absorbed with its symptom that we give too little attention to treating its cause.

Harvey Weinstein reveals how the most powerful men in this country have tendrils in to every kind of institution.

If Democrats in Washington haven't got enough sense to own the issue of political reform, I give up on them entirely.

The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.

We have to end Citizens United, and we have to do it united as a people. If we don't do it, our system is going to be further corrupted.

I love to watch television in Babylon, especially the news because it's so full of corruption. I-man know there is so much corruption, there is bound to be an eruption!

I don't want to negotiate with the power brokers in Washington; I want to tear them down.

I find the Democratic party overall, on a macro level, to be institutionally corrupt.