Actor Quote by John Podhoretz

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

— Bob Dole

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

— John Podhoretz

Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from…

— Jim Talent

Most of Gingrich's moderate positions are rooted in a realpolitik that transcends ideology.

— David Grann

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

Gingrich is the "foremost intellectual" in the Republican party like Gene Simmons is the foremost intellectual in "Kiss".

— Bill Maher

Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself.

— John Podhoretz

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

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

He's not a bold decision maker like Newt Gingrich is. Every time I talk to him, he says 'well let me think about it.'

— Sheldon Adelson

Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down…

— George Packer