Dramatic Quote by Steve Kornacki

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

— Thomas E. Mann

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

This is what Newt Gingrich has wrought - is a politics in which it's very easy to destroy and very hard to build.

— George Packer

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

— John Podhoretz

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

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because…

— Barney Frank

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's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a…

— Pete du Pont

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

“Newt Gingrich, buddy, the people of the United States don’t like you. And the only reason the rest of the world doesn’t despise you…

— Jarod Kintz

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 gave voice to something that was said throughout this campaign from Democrats and Republicans.

— Chuck Todd