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The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.

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Newt Gingrich
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 17
Former U.S. Representative
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I'm a little tired of people who have very big moral positions and very small power in reality.
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And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking.
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I think the very concept of an elite commission deciding for the American people who deserves to be heard is profoundly wrong.
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I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [his grandchildren are] my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.
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We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
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