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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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All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.
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I think Donald Trump is very, very cautious about nuclear weapons, and he's seriously concerned. And this might be one of the reasons he wants to deal with Putin carefully, because he's aware of how many nuclear weapons Putin has, and that Russian doctrine is much more open about using nuclear weapons than is American doctrine.
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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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The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
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I think Donald Trump thinks of Putin as being a strong person, and I think he thinks of himself as being a very strong person. But I don't think in any way that he thinks of the Putin government as a desirable model.
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Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.
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It's a normal way of doing business.
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Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration?
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I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.
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I believe most Americans are pro-choice and anti-abortion.
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The evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading of the atmosphere.
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Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works.
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Give the park police more ammo.
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An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.
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There's a Big Trump and there's a Little Trump.
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Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of common sense that is pretty hard to deal with.
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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.
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My fine friends who are perfectionists, each in their own world where they are petty dictators, could write a perfect bill. Those of us who have grown up and matured...understand that we have to work together on the big issues.
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Lions cannot afford to hunt mice because they literally will starve to death, even if they catch them. Lions and all large carnivores have to hunt game large enough to justify the investment, so they have to hunt antelope and zebra. Why is this important? Because most senior executives are really big on chipmunks.
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That will change over time the entire flow of information and the entire quality of knowledge in the country and it will change the way people will try to play games in the legislative process.
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