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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.

Newt Gingrich

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