Behavior Quote by Jacob Weisberg

Newt Gingrich is one of the brightest people in the Republican Party and he's always been a little unorthodox in his approach to politics,…

— Gary Bauer

Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.

— Maurice Sendak

Newt Gingrich is an incredible leader. He is a leader of our time, and he's going to lead us into the future. And we're…

— Tom DeLay

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

— John Podhoretz

That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is…

— Henry Rollins

He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.

— Al Franken

Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop?

— Molly Ivins

I think Dr. Ben Carson is a unique political personality. He's what we call a conviction politician. He actually believes in what he says.…

— Daniel Henninger

I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally and captivate the conservative movement.

— Rick Perry

I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or the highway.

— Bob Dole

I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results.

— J. C. Watts

Without medical records that he hasn't released, we can't know whether Gingrich may have inherited his mother's manic depression. Nevertheless, one observes in the…

— Jacob Weisberg