Newt Gingrich Whether Quotations

As a citizen, my observation is if a independent counsel believes that by gathering evidence from people who were in casual social circumstances might unlock whether or not there was a criminal conspiracy, I think he should interview anybody he thinks is an appropriate witness,

I think we prefer to go to instant check on an immediate basis and try to accelerate implementing instant checks so that you could literally check by thumb print whether there was a convicted felon with dangerous behavior or dangerous mental behavior. Instant check is a much better system than the Brady process.

We're not in a values fight now but over whether the system is working. The issue is delivery.

Sooner or later, I think that the public's right to know is more important than whether or not these people go to jail,

We owe the American people the right to know what happened. They have the right to know whether or not the American government was undermined by the Chinese.

If the president is willing to sign a bill that has those reforms, which everybody agrees intellectually are needed in the long run, no one denies that we have to have some pretty basic reforms as people live longer and baby boomers head towards retirement, if he's willing to work with us, I think that we can get something done, but frankly he can kill that by simply indicating he won't support it, ... It's too difficult to carry reforms of that size against the president, so he has a unique burden of having to decide whether or not he can accept that.

Well, it depends on whether the president instructs his staff to testify. It depends on whether the attitude is obstruction or the attitude is cooperation. And, I think at the moment we don't know what will happen.

We have a chance today to say to the world, no matter what our constitutional process, whether it is an election eve or it is the eve of a constitutional vote, no matter what our debates at home, we are as a nation prepared to lead the world,

Every year that we wait, the risk increases. I would hope that the administration would decide to do something decisive. . . . We have the military power in the region if we need it. It's a question of whether we have the will.