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I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt - pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of your lifetime - in fact, the only major entitlement reform now is welfare.

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Newt Gingrich
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 17
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