Ability Quote by 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

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

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

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

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

— J. C. Watts

But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still…

— John Podhoretz

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

— John Podhoretz

“He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means.”

— Thomas E. Mann

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

— John Podhoretz

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