More scary Newt Gingrich quotes:

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“The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.” — Mother Jones, October 1989 (See: Gingrich Said to Be Paid About $1.6 Million by Freddie Mac) 

“And I think that one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don’t encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the camp fire, but are lousy in politics.” — in a speech given to the College Republicans at the Atlanta Airport Holiday Inn on June 24, 1978

“People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz. I see evil all around me every day.” — in a 1994 interview with Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. I think it is prepared to use the government if it can get control of it. I think that it is a very dangerous threat to anybody who believes in traditional religion.” — on the November 14 edition of Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor

“Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There is no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center.” — on the August 16, 2010 edition of Fox News’ Fox and Friends

“The America in which we grew up is vastly different from the America the secular-socialist Left want to create. And that’s why saving America is the fundamental challenge of our time. The secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did. ” — in his book To Save America: Stopping Obama’s Secular-Socialist Machine

“What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]? That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.” — in a September 2010 interview with National Review Online

“Obama is the most serious radical threat to traditional America ever to occupy the White House.” — in his book Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s Red Shirts Are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers

“If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for thirty days because they get infections and they don’t have upper body strength. I mean, some do, but they’re relatively rare. On the other hand, men are basically little piglets, you drop them in the ditch, they roll around in it, doesn’t matter, you know. These things are very real. On the other hand, if combat means being on an Aegis-class cruiser managing the computer controls for twelve ships and their rockets, a female may be again dramatically better than a male who gets very, very frustrated sitting in a chair all the time because males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.” — Address, “Renewing American Civilization,” Reinhardt College, (January 7, 1995)

“This is one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration. The more successful they’ve been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof there is that we’re in danger…. It’s almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us.” — at a book talk in Huntington, New York in April 2008

“How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn’t get out of the way of a hurricane.” — at the March 2007 Conservative Political Action Conference

“I don’t think that we have conclusive proof of global warming. And I don’t think we have conclusive proof that humans are at the center of it.” — on his website April 22, 2008

“There is no attack on American culture more destructive and more historically dishonest than the relentless effort to drive God out of America’s public square. The 2002 decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that the phrase “under God” is unconstitutional represents a fundamental assault on our American identity. A court that would unilaterally modify the Pledge of Allegiance as adopted by the Congress in 1954, signed by President Eisenhower, and supported 91% of the American people is a court that is clearly out of step with an America that understands that our unalienable rights come from God.” — Rediscovering God in America, p. 6 Dec 31, 2006 

“This power grab by the Court is a modern phenomenon and a dramatic break in American history. The danger is that the courts will move us from a self-understanding that we are one nation “under God”, to a nation under the rule of the state, where rights are accorded to individuals not by our Creator, but by those in power ruling over them. History is replete with examples of this failed model of might-makes-right—Nazism, fascism, communism—and their disastrous consequences” — Rediscovering God in America, p. 132-133 Dec 31, 2006 

“To a surprising degree, we are in a situation similar to Poland’s in 1979. … in America, religious belief is being challenged by a cultural elite trying to create a secularized America, in which God is driven out of public life.” — at a banquet for Ohio Right to Life

“I would instruct the national security officials in a Gingrich administration to ignore the recent decisions of the Supreme Court on national security matters.” — at the Values Voters Summit in Washington

“[As part of the Contract with America, within 100 days we pledge to bring to the House Floor the following bill]: The Personal Responsibility Act: Discourage illegitimacy and teen pregnancy by prohibiting welfare to minor mothers and denying increased AFDC for additional children while on welfare, cut spending for welfare programs, and enact a tough two-years-and-out provision with work requirements to promote individual responsibility.” — Contract with America 93-CWA5 on Sep 27, 1994 

“The Baker-Hamilton Commission suggested that we engage Iran & Syria, who are our enemies in the region. The fact is the Iranians want us defeated. The Iranians are providing weapons, training and money to defeat us. This would be like saying, ‘Why don’t we turn to Nazi Germany to help us manage fascist Italy?’” —Meet the Press: 2007 “Meet the Candidates” series May 20, 2007 

“I think it would be much better for Israel if there was a broad consensus that the survival of Israel is integral to the survival of the U.S., and if Israel was a nonpartisan issue. With this president, it’s not possible. He clearly has no understanding of the threat, no willingness to tell the truth about it, and has a fantasy vision of how the world works. His proposal [concerning] the 1967 borders was suicidal. An Israel that accepts 1967 borders is an Israel that accepts the demise of the country.” — in an interview with Haaretz, July 29, 2011

“Our goal should be to replace the current dictatorship in Iran, and to replace it using covert operations, using propaganda, using sanctions, funneling money into dissident groups, ceasing communications strategies.” — in an interview with Haaretz, July 29, 2011

“We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country, so they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.” — at a National Federation of Republican Women event, making the case against bi-lingual education and learning Spanish

“In the Obama Administration, protecting the rights of terrorists has been more important than protecting the lives of Americans. That must now change decisively. It is time to know more about would-be terrorists, to profile for terrorists and to actively discriminate based on suspicious terrorist information.” — in his article On Terrorism it’s Time to Know, to Profile, and to Discriminate

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