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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.

Newt Gingrich

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