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Newton Leroy Gingrich is an American politician who served as the 50th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. representative for Georgia's 6th congressional district serving north Atlanta and nearby areas from 1979 until his resignation in 1999. In 2012, Gingrich unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for…
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2026· 31 entries
“To have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think.”
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“I don’t know how other people work,”
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“The campaign begins anew Sunday in Los Angeles.”
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“And he said, ‘Yes, but you want me all to yourself. Callista doesn’t care what I do.”
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“t have the interest in serving in any role related to the Trump administration, stressing that as a private citizen he would engage with individuals for”
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“The Speaker, by raising money and gerrymandering, has sincerely dedicated a part of his career to wiping me out.”
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Public attention spiked: 5,292 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4× the usual 1,313, with 0 article edits.
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Snopes rated the claim “Republican former House Speaker Newt Gingrich shared a post advocating for using nuclear detonations to create a canal that would serve as an alternative shipping route to the Strait of Hormuz.” True.
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2025· 2 entries
The Guardian: Trump’s sweeping deportation threat is unworkable and aimed at ‘rabid’ Republicans, says Newt Gingrich
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The Guardian: ‘They enrich all of our lives’: Newt Gingrich on immigrants and Trump’s deportation plans
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2022· 1 entry
Campaign: 2022 election.
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2020· 1 entry
Campaign: 2020 election.
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2017· 2 entries
Claimed: “In economic growth, “Obama’s best year was slower than Bill Clinton’s worst year.”” — rated Mostly True by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: “DNC staffer Seth Rich "apparently was assassinated at 4 in the morning, having given WikiLeaks something like 53,000 emails and 17,000 attachments. ... It turns out, it wasn’t the Russians."” — rated Pants on Fire by PolitiFact.
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2016· 13 entries
Gingrich argued that members of NATO "ought to worry" about a U
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Claimed: “"Every major city which has a center of poverty is run by Democrats. Every major city."” — rated Mostly False by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: “"Community banks … are being destroyed by Dodd-Frank."” — rated False by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: “"I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt."” — rated False by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: “"No federal official at any level is currently allowed to say ‘Merry Christmas.’"” — rated Pants on Fire by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: “There are 86 languages spoken at Miami Dade College.” — rated True by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: “"We balanced the budget with the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, and ultimately had four consecutive balanced budgets."” — rated Mostly True by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: “The labor market is weak because if you count the unemployed, underemployed, and those who’ve stopped looking for work, the unemployment rate "actually went up last month to 13.5 percent."” — rated Half True by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: “Says Amazon has removed "an educational game about Gettysburg."” — rated Half True by PolitiFact.
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Gingrich stated that he believes that Americans of Muslim backgrounds who believe in Sharia law should be deported, and that visiting websites that promote the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or Al-Qaeda should be a
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The campaign filed a proposal to shut down without paying back its outstanding debt to 114 businesses and consultants; the FEC rejected this proposal
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“, Vox .; Tesfaye, Sophia (15 July 2016),”
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Campaign: 2016 election.
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2015· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Newt Gingrich tweeted about the 2 December 2015 San Bernardino shooting on 13 November 2015.” False.
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"after several years of looking at the UN, I can report to you that it is sufficiently corrupt and sufficiently inefficient that no reasonable person would put faith in it
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2014· 1 entry
Gingrich sent a letter to Dr
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2012· 8 entries
On whose behalf he subsequently campaigned (i
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Gingrich came in last place in the Minnesota Republican caucuses with about 10
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Gingrich placed a distant second in the Nevada Republican caucuses with 21%, losing to Romney who received over 50% of the total votes cast
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Gingrich placed second in the Republican Florida primary, losing by a fifteen percentage point margin, 47% to 32%
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Gingrich finished in fourth place in the Iowa Republican caucuses, far behind Rick Santorum, Romney, and Ron Paul
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Gingrich unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for president of the United States
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“Freddie Mac paid Gingrich Group, which has a number of employees and a number of offices, a consulting fee, just like you would pay any other consulting firm.”
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And even comparing him to Benedict Arnold
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2011· 6 entries
A group of Gingrich's senior campaign aides left the campaign en masse, leading to doubts about the viability of his presidential run
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Gingrich officially announced his intention to seek the GOP nomination in 2012
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Gingrich officially announced a website entitled "Newt Exploratory 2012" in lieu of a formal exploratory committee for exploration of a potential presidential run
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When Gingrich became a presidential candidate, he sold his interest in the business and said he would release the full list of his clients and the amounts he was paid, "to the extent we can"
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Newt and Callista appeared in A City Upon a Hill, on the subject of American exceptionalism
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When Gingrich began his presidential campaign
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2010· 1 entry
It paid Gingrich more than $2
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2009· 1 entry
“I am very sad that a number of Republicans do not understand that this country is sick of earmarks. [Americans] are sick of politicians taking care of themselves. They are sick of their money being spent in a way that is absolutely indefensible ... I think you”
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2008· 1 entry
Because he could not continue to serve as chairman of American Solutions if he did so
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2007· 3 entries
Gingrich announced that if his supporters pledged $30 million to his campaign by October 21, he would seek the nomination
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Gingrich authored a book, Rediscovering God in America
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To evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of action taken within the U
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2005· 3 entries
Gingrich suggested he was considering a run for president, saying, "There are circumstances where I will run", elaborating that those circumstances would be if no other candidate champions some of the platform ideas he a
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Became the co-chair of a task force for UN reform, which aimed to produce a plan for the U
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With Hillary Clinton, Gingrich announced the proposed 21st Century Health Information Act, a bill which aimed to replace paperwork with confidential, electronic health information networks
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2003· 1 entry
Founded the Center for Health Transformation
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1999· 2 entries
Gingrich started a number of for-profit companies: Between 2001 and 2010, the companies he and his wife owned in full or part had revenues of almost $100 million
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The IRS cleared the organizations connected with the "Renewing American Civilization" courses under investigation for possible tax violations
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1998· 3 entries
“single most avoidable mistake”
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Gingrich said that these comments were his "single most avoidable mistake" as Speaker
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Gingrich's private polls had given his fellow Republicans the impression that pushing the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal would damage Clinton's popularity and result in the party winning a net total of six to thirty seats in t
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1997· 7 entries
Awarded Doublespeak Award (1997).
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The House officially reprimanded Gingrich (in a vote of 395 in favor, 28 opposed) and "ordered [him] to reimburse the House for some of the costs of the investigation in the amount of $300,000"
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Speaker Gingrich visited Taiwan as well as Beijing in mainland China
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And the first four consecutive balanced budgets since the 1920s, as well as the first re-election of a Republican majority since 1928
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President Clinton signed into effect the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, which included the largest capital gains tax cut in U
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Career landmark: United States representative (1997–1999).
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“I did not manage the effort intensely enough to thoroughly direct or review information being submitted to the committee on my behalf. In my name and over my signature, inaccurate, incomplete and unreliable statements were given to the committee, but I did not intend to mislead the committee ... I brought down on the people”
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1996· 1 entry
After constructing two welfare reform bills that Clinton vetoed, Gingrich and his supporters pushed for passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, which was intended to reconstruct the welfare syste
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1995· 6 entries
Awarded Time Person of the Year (1995).
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Awarded Doublespeak Award (1995).
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Gingrich's 1993 college course, entitled Renewing American Civilization, taught on Saturdays at Reinhardt College in Waleska, Georgia, was televised on the cable channel, Mind Extension University
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Career landmark: Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1995–1999).
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Career landmark: United States representative (1995–1997).
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Time named him "Man of the Year" for "his role in ending the four-decades-long Democratic majority in the House"
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1994· 1 entry
“, The New York Times . ==== Contract with America, 1994 ==== PDF, The Republican “Contract with America”
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1993· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States representative (1993–1995).
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1992· 1 entry
Gingrich faced a primary challenge from State Representative Herman Clark, which he won by just 978 votes amid ethical concerns and an anti-incumbent trend
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1991· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States representative (1991–1993).
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1990· 1 entry
After consulting focus groups with the help of pollster Frank Luntz, GOPAC distributed a memo with a cover letter signed by Gingrich titled "Language, a Key Mechanism of Control", that encouraged Republicans to "speak li
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1989· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States representative (1989–1991).
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1987· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States representative (1987–1989).
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1985· 2 entries
Career landmark: United States representative (1985–1987).
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Stated, "Given everything I believe in, a large part of me thinks I should have gone over
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1983· 2 entries
Career landmark: United States representative (1983–1985).
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Gingrich founded the Conservative Opportunity Society (COS), a group that included young conservative House Republicans
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1981· 2 entries
Gingrich co-founded the Military Reform Caucus (MRC) and the Congressional Aviation and Space Caucus
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Career landmark: United States representative (1981–1983).
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1979· 2 entries
Career landmark: United States representative (1979–1981).
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Career landmark: United States representative (1979–1999).
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1974· 2 entries
Nationally, the Democratic candidate in the 1976 presidential election was former governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter
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Gingrich made his first bid for political office as the Republican candidate in Georgia's 6th congressional district in north-central Georgia
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1971· 1 entry
Studied at Tulane University, Doctor of Philosophy (1971).
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1970· 1 entry
Gingrich joined the history department at West Georgia College, where he spent "little time teaching history
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1968· 1 entry
Studied at Tulane University, Master of Arts (1968).
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1965· 1 entry
Studied at Emory University, Bachelor of Arts (1965).
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1961· 2 entries
Studied at Baker High School (1961).
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Gingrich graduated from Baker High School in Columbus, Georgia, where he met, and later married, his math teacher
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1960· 1 entry
During his junior year in high school, the family moved to Georgia at Fort Benning
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1956· 1 entry
The family moved to Europe, living for a period in Orléans, France, and Stuttgart, Germany
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1946· 1 entry
His mother married Robert Gingrich (1925–1996), who adopted him
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1943· 6 entries
Born 1943-06-17.
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“, Mother Jones . Later claimed he was not referring to Spanish:”
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“, Mother Jones . It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can’t even read. Manegold, Catherine S. (12 November 1994),”
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“, Mother Jones . I think that the mother killing the two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we need to change things. The only way you get change is to vote Republican. Scheer, Robert (27 November 1994),”
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“, Politico . There is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. Dickinson, Tim (19 January 2011),”
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“, Rolling Stone . === 2010s === Jefferson wanted very small government. Obama is the opposite – he wants government to take care of you, a government that runs virtually everything. The things Obama wants us to be bipartisan on are fundamentally wrong and have very little popular support. Rudin, Ken; NPR (20 June 2010), Gingrich Plots GOP Comeback Against”
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