Newt Gingrich Quotes

When I think about Sen. Collins, I think she might have been different from the other people in Washington when she was first elected but I have to ask is that still the case.

No matter where we go in the state, I hear from Mainers that they are ready for someone to stand up for them in Washington.

I think we have enough Washington in Washington, and I think maybe we need a little more Florida, and this recipe that's worked for Florida, in Washington.

Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.

I have not been in Washington very long, but I've been there long enough to be shocked by how antiquated some of our laws have become.

Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

Governor Kempthorne of Idaho, our chairman of the National Governors Association, is doing a great job bringing all of the nation's governors together to work as partners with the federal government.

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They want to see the way business is done in Washington change.

Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

The best thing for the American public is that we do our job. That Washington changes. That the Senate and the House get together and fix their differences and find common ground.

I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other people who inspire young people, but I'd like to see somebody in political life be able to connect and make these choices that we need to make in Washington real in terms of people's lives.

I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.

I'd rather live in Nebraska than Washington.

I love Arizona. I was raised right. Somebody has to go to Washington and knock the hell out of the place.

With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers.

People who think the might in Washington can be persuaded, or corrupted if you will, by anything less than voters just doesn’t understand what its about and never will. They don’t know what Washington juice is made of.

If you are a U. S. senator, you can give an ideological response to a serious problem and probably never be held accountable for it. Whereas the [state] governors are dealing with the real world—they have to run things, to make them work.

The Presidents who have gone to Washington without first having held some national office have been at great disadvantage. It takes them a long time to become acquainted with the Federal office-holders and the Federal Government.

When I first came to Washington ... my charge was to cut the cost of government, to get government off our backs .... Thirty years later, the local newspaper says, "We want you to be a pork provider and we don't mean the farm kind.

Senator [John] Kerry has been in Washington long enough to have taken both sides on every issue.

I’m going to take Tennessee ideas to Washington and make them work for the country.