Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich

POLITICIAN

Republican Speaker of the House from 1995 to 1999, when he resigned in disgrace after being disciplined by the House for an ethics violations. He ran an unsuccessful bid for President in 2012 in which he infamously expressed a desire to build a colony on the moon.

  • When was
    Newt Gingrich born?

    Newt Gingrich was born on Thursday, June 17, 1943

  • Where was
    Newt Gingrich born?

    Newt Gingrich was born in Harrisburg, PA

  • How old is
    Newt Gingrich?

    Newt Gingrich is 80

  • How much is Newt Gingrich worth?

    Newt Gingrich is worth $9 Million


Best Quotes

  • [The Republicans] offer ... a detailed agenda for national renewal.... [On] reducing illegitimacy ... the state will use ... funds for program...
  • [They are the] Great Society, counterculture, McGovernicks.
  • Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
  • 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.
  • We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.
  • Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
  • It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.
  • If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened.
  • I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.
  • I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

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