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The Greatest Leaders In Fighting For An Integrated America In The Twentieth Century Were In The Democratic Party. The Fact Is, It Was The Liberal Wing Of The Democratic Party That Ended Segregation. The Fact Is That It Was Franklin Delano Roosevelt Who Gave Hope To A Nation That Was In Despair And Could Have Slid Into Dictatorship. And The Fact Is, Every Republican Has Much To Learn From Studying What The Democrats Did Right.

-Newt Gingrich

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Newt Gingrich

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The Greatest Leaders In Fighting For An Integrated America In The Twentieth Century Were In The Democratic Party. The Fact Is, It Was The Liberal Wing Of The Democratic Party That Ended Segregation. The Fact Is That It Was Franklin Delano Roosevelt Who Gave Hope To A Nation That Was In Despair And Could Have Slid Into Dictatorship. And The Fact Is, Every Republican Has Much To Learn From Studying What The Democrats Did Right.

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You Want To Be A Country That Creates Food Stamps? In Which Case, Frankly, Obama Is An Enormous Success The Most Successful Food Stamp President In American History. Or Do You Want To Be A Country That Creates Jobs?

Remember, Most Of The Bureaucrats Voted For Hillary Clinton. Most Of The Bureaucrats Deeply Dislike What Trump Is Trying To Accomplish, And Most Of The Bureaucrats Think They Can't Be Fired, So They Can Outlast You.

The Greatest Leaders In Fighting For An Integrated America In The Twentieth Century Were In The Democratic Party. The Fact Is, It Was The Liberal Wing Of The Democratic Party That Ended Segregation. The Fact Is That It Was Franklin Delano Roosevelt Who Gave Hope To A Nation That Was In Despair And Could Have Slid Into Dictatorship. And The Fact Is, Every Republican Has Much To Learn From Studying What The Democrats Did Right.

My Strength And My Weakness Is That I See Normally Impersonal Events Vividly And Personally.

Show True Cost Of Fica-double What Is Shown On Paychecks.

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.

It Is Tragic What We Do In The Poorest Neighborhoods, Entrapping Children In Child Laws Which Are Truly Stupid... These Schools Should Get Rid Of Unionized Janitors, Have One Master Janitor, Pay Local Students To Take Care Of The School.

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.

You Can't Flip-flop And Be Commander-in-chief.

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We Should Replace Bilingual Education With Immersion In English So People Learn The Common Language Of The Country And They Learn The Language Of Prosperity, Not The Language Of Living In A Ghetto.

I Want To Say Unequivocally That While I Cherish Every Person Who Comes From Anywhere, Who Comes Here Legally And Seeks To Pursue Happiness, And I Hope All Of Them Decide To Stay And Become American Citizens, But I Want Them To Become American. And Part Of Becoming American Involved English. It Is Vital Historically To Assert And Establish That English Is The Common Language At The Heart Of Our Civilization.

The U.s. Was Founded By A Group Of Political Leaders Who Signed A Document Which Says, "we Are Endowed By Our Creator With Certain Inalienable Rights." That Means That All Of Your Political Rights Come From God And You Then Loan Some Of Your Power To The State Which Is Why The Constitution Begins, "we, The People Of The United States.

Now, We Don't Get Rid Of It In Round One Because We Don't Think That That's Politically Smart, And We Don't Think That's The Right Way To Go Through A Transition. But We Believe It's Going To Wither On The Vine Because We Think People Are Voluntarily Going To Leave It - Voluntarily.

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

If Under The Pressure Of Washington Donald Trump Starts Dissembling And Saying Things That Aren't True, He'll Decay As Much As Obama Did Well On That.

Give The Park Police More Ammo.

The Most Powerful Force Changing Our Society Is The Information Revolution.

Adolescence Was Invented In The 19th Century To Enable Middle-class Families To Keep Their Children Out Of Sweatshops. But It Has Degenerated Into A Process Of Enforced Boredom And Age Segregation That Has Produced One Of The Most Destructive Social Arrangements In Human History: Consigning 13-year-old Males To Learning From 15-year-old Males.

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