Newt Gingrich

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Newton Leroy "Newt" Gingrich ( /ˈnuːt ˈɡɪŋɡrɪtʃ/; born Newton Leroy McPherson; June 17, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 58th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. He represented Georgia's 6th congressional district as a Republican member from 1979 to 1999. He is a Republican candidate in 2012 for President of the United States. Gingrich was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but raised in Hummelstown, a small nearby borough. <a href="https://ww

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2. The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

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3. Radical Prostatectomy versus Observation for Localized Prostate Cancer

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4. Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in earth's terrestrial ecosystems

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5. The ATLAS Simulation Infrastructure

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Quotes

• “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.”
• “Everyone of you is old enough to have been a rifleman in Vietnam. A number of you are old enough to have been platoon leaders, or company commanders, depending on the situation, and how rapidly you move up in rank. This is the same business, we're just lucky, in this country, we don't use bullets, we use ballots instead. You're fighting a war. It is a war for power.”
• “Do you like the state of the Republican Party? Do you think you ought to respect Bill Brock because he has done such a great job? Or Richard Nixon, or Gerald Ford, the only incumbent president since Herbert Hoover to lose an election? They have done a terrible job, a pathetic job. In my lifetime, literally in my lifetime, I was born in 1943, we have not had a competent national Republican leader. Not ever!”
• “Now the reason I am being harshly critical is because I want you all to learn a lesson. When you see somebody doing something dumb, say it. You don't help your party any by neatly sitting off to one side and saying, "God I wish you weren't so stupid." You weaken your party. And when you say it, say it in the press, say it loud, fight, scrap, issue a press release, go make a speech.”
• “The number one fact about the news media is they love fights. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.”
• “I see myself as representing the conservative wing of the postindustrial society.”

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Key dates

Born

17 June 1943

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Wikidata facts

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human

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Occupation

historian

Position held

member of the United States House of Representatives

Political party

Republican Party (United States)

Languages spoken

English language

Religion

Catholicism

Award

Time Person of the Year

Hair colour

grey hair

Official website

newt.org

Image

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Work location

Washington, D.C.

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