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So When People Tell You, Oh, You Can't Have The Ten Commandments On Public Property, They're Just Wrong. It's Historically False. It's Not True. Now, You Can Decide To Invent A New America In Which You Shouldn't Say "one Nation Under God" As Part Of The Pledge Because, After All, You Will Offend Three Atheists. But That's Not The America You Inherited. That's A Different Country. And I Think It's A Weaker Country And I Think It's A Country That Has No Roots In Terms Of Where Its Rights Come From.

-Newt Gingrich

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So When People Tell You, Oh, You Can't Have The Ten Commandments On Public Property, They're Just Wrong. It's Historically False. It's Not True. Now, You Can Decide To Invent A New America In Which You Shouldn't Say "one Nation Under God" As Part Of The Pledge Because, After All, You Will Offend Three Atheists. But That's Not The America You Inherited. That's A Different Country. And I Think It's A Weaker Country And I Think It's A Country That Has No Roots In Terms Of Where Its Rights Come From.

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We Have To Rethink, How Do We Get A Complete 360-degree Understanding Of The Patient?

I Don’t Think We Have Conclusive Proof That Humans Are At The Center Of [global Warming]

We've Had An Invented Palestinian People, Who Are In Fact Arabs, And Were Historically Part Of The Arab Community. And They Had A Chance To Go Many Places. And For A Variety Of Political Reasons We Have Sustained This War Against Israel Now Since The 1940's, And I Think It's Tragic.

I Balanced The Budget For Four Straight Years, Paid Off $405 Billion In Debt - Pretty Conservative. The First Entitlement Reform Of Your Lifetime - In Fact, The Only Major Entitlement Reform Now Is Welfare.

Russia Is Modernizing Its Nuclear Systems. They're Moving Toward More Effective Tactical Nuclear Systems. They're Moving Toward Delivery Systems Designed To Evade Anti-ballistic Missile Defenses. The Russians Are Investing, By The Way, In Robotic Weapons, Including A Potential Robotic Tank. Their Investment In New Technology, I Suspect, Outweighs All Of The European Defense Research And Development Spending Combined.

And My Point Was One I Think That You'd Agree With, Which Is There's No Room In America For A Black Racist, A Latino Racist, Or A White Racist, Or An Asian Racist, Or A Native American Racist. Now, We're Either Color Blind Or We're Not Color Blind.

Native American

Frankly, Governor Romney In His Career Has Created More Jobs Than The Entire Obama Cabinet Combined, So He Could Actually Talk About It.

President Obama Is A President So Weak That He Makes Jimmy Carter Look Strong.

I Am Convinced That If We Do Not Decisively Win The Struggle Over The Nature Of America, By The Time [his Grandchildren Are] My Age They Will Be In A Secular Atheist Country, Potentially One Dominated By Radical Islamists And With No Understanding Of What It Once Meant To Be An American.

Gingrich First Backed The Concept In 1993, "i Am For People, Individuals - Exactly Like Automobile Insurance - Individuals Having Health Insurance And Being Required To Have Health Insurance.

I Believe We Are Now In A Struggle Over Whether Or Not We Are Going To Save America.

Convert To Ira-based System.

Social Security

I Think That 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, And Loyal And Faithful And All Those Boy Scout Words, Which Would Be Great Around The Camp Fire, But Are Lousy In Politics.

I'm Willing To Go Through A Full Body Scan Or Anything Else You Need To. What I Am Offended By Is The Absolute Unwillingness Of Obama's Administration. Callista And I Did A Movie Called "america At Risk: The War With No Name," Where We Outlined - Who Are The People Who've Been Terrorists In The Last Three Or Four Years? They're All Males. They're All Young. They're All Fairly Identifiable In Other Ways. So We're Going To A Point - We're Going To Have A Full Body Scan Of An 83-year-old Nun From Des Moines Because We Don't Want To Be Honest About Who Our Enemies Are?

It's Going To Be A Bummer If Mars Turns Out To Be Like Us.

Under Our [constitutional System] - Either We're Going To Have To Rethink Our Constitution, Or We're Going To Have To Rethink Our Process Of Decision-making.

Decision Making

It Is Time We Passed A Balanced Budget Amendment And Return This Government To Limited Spending.

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.

Surely The President Can Agree With Us, That Theft From Government Is Not Good. I Know It's Bold. It's Out On The Edge. I Know From A Chicago-springfield Background It's Hard To Fully Grasp That Honesty Could Be Part Of Government.

We In This House Are Role Models. People All Over The World Watch Us And Study Us. When We Fall Short, They Lose Hope. When We Fail, They Despair.

Christmas Represents Love And Mercy. It Was Ushered In By The Star Of Hope And Remains Forever Consecrated By The Sacrifice Of The Cross. Christmas Holds Its Place In The Hearts Of Men Because They Know That Love Is The Greatest Thing In The World. Christmas Is Celebrated In The True Spirit Only By Those Who Make Some Sacrifice For The Benefit Of Their Fellow Men.

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