Campaign Statements — Newt Gingrich
Tuesday March 27, 2012
“The President’s remark to his Russian counterpart that he would have more “flexibility” on ballistic missile defense after the election underscores how dangerous an Obama re-election would be. The President promised the Senate during the ratification debate on the New START Treaty he would not compromise on the Russian demand to limit US ballistic missile defense. Now we find out that promise was nothing more than empty words. The Russian demands, including ballistic missile deployment restrictions, limits on the technological capabilities of our missiles, and joint control over launch decisions, if agreed to by the US government; constitute a clear-and-present danger to American security.
The Russians seek to impose deployment restrictions on US sea-based ballistic missile defense systems including the deployment of Aegis-class missile defense ships from the Black Sea — the path over which Iranian ICBMs would have to travel to reach the US.”
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CATEGORIES: Iran | Newt Gingrich |
Thursday February 23, 2012
“There seems to be nothing that radical Islamists can do to get Barack Obama’s attention in a negative way and he is consistently apologizing to people who do not deserve the apology of the president of the United States period. And, candidly, if Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, doesn’t feel like apologizing then we should say good bye and good luck, we don’t need to be here risking our lives and wasting our money on somebody who doesn’t care…This president has gone so far at appeasing radical Islamists that he is failing in his duty as commander in chief.”
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CATEGORIES: Afghanistan | Islamophobia | Newt Gingrich |
Wednesday February 22, 2012
“We clearly should have our allies—this is an old- fashioned word—have our allies covertly helping destroy the Assad regime. There are plenty of Arab-speaking [sic] groups that would be quite happy. There are lots of weapons available in the Middle East.
And I agree with Senator Santorum’s point. This is an administration which, as long as you’re America’s enemy, you’re safe. You know, the only people you’ve got to worry about is if you’re an American ally.”
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CATEGORIES: The Arab Spring | Newt Gingrich |
Wednesday February 22, 2012
“Well, the first thing I’d do, across the board for the entire region, is create a very dramatic American energy policy of opening up federal lands and opening up offshore drilling, replacing the EPA.
The Iranians have been practicing closing the Straits of Hormuz, which has one out of every five barrels of oil in the world going through it. We have enough energy in the United States that we would be the largest producer of oil in the world by the end of this decade. We would be capable of saying to the Middle East, “We frankly don’t care what you do. The Chinese have a big problem because you ain’t going to have any oil. But we would not have to be directly engaged.”
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CATEGORIES: Iran | Newt Gingrich |
Wednesday February 22, 2012
“If an Israeli prime minister, haunted by the history of the Holocaust, recognizing that three nuclear weapons is a holocaust in Israel, if an Israeli prime minister calls me and says, I believe in the defense of my country. This goes back to a point that Congressman Paul raised that we probably disagree on. I do believe there are moments when you preempt. If you think a madman is about to have nuclear weapons and you think that madman is going to use those nuclear weapons, then you have an absolute moral obligation to defend the lives of your people by eliminating the capacity to get nuclear weapons.”
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CATEGORIES: Iran | Israel/Palestine | Newt Gingrich |
Wednesday February 22, 2012
“Well, first of all this is two different questions. General Dempsey went on to say that he thought Iran was a rational actor. I can’t imagine why he would say that. And I just cannot imagine why he would have said it. The fact is, this is a dictator, Ahmadinejad, who has said he doesn’t believe the Holocaust existed. This is a dictator who said he wants to eliminate Israel from the face of the earth. This is a dictator who said he wants to drive the United States out of the Middle East. I’m inclined to believe dictators. Now, I think that it’s dangerous not to.”
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CATEGORIES: Iran | Newt Gingrich |
Wednesday February 22, 2012
“I believe you cannot pass a single large comprehensive bill, the 2,700-page kind of bill you described. I think you’ve got to go one step at a time.
The first step is to control the border. I don’t believe anybody who’s here illegally—and I talked last night, for example, with folks who are of Hispanic background from Nogales who are in the import-export business dealing with Mexico every day. They don’t want a border that’s closed, they want a border that’s controlled, that has easy access for legality and impossible access for illegality. And that’s the model that I think you can talk about in my community of any ethnic background in this country.”
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CATEGORIES: Immigration | Newt Gingrich |
Wednesday February 22, 2012
“Look, the fact is I helped Duncan Hunter pass the first fence bill in San Diego when I was Speaker of the House. San Diego and Tijuana are the most densely populated border. It turned out it worked. It worked dramatically. Duncan and I would be glad to testify—he’s former chairman of the Defense Committee—how much it worked.
However, it stopped. It stopped in part because there was a wetlands. It turned out none of the illegal immigrants cared about wetlands policy. Then you had to go and build around the wetlands, which we did. The further we have gone with the fence, the fewer the people have broken into California.”
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CATEGORIES: Immigration | Newt Gingrich |
Wednesday February 22, 2012
“Now, the thing that’s fascinating, though, John, is you quoted a government study of how much it would cost. That’s my earlier point. If you modernize the federal government so it’s competent, you could probably do it for 10 percent of the cost of that study. The fact is, I have a commitment at newt.org, to finish the job by January 1, 2014, I would initiate a bill that would waive all federal regulations, requirement and studies.
I would ask Governor Brewer here, I would ask Governor Martinez, Governor Brown, and Governor Perry to become the co-leaders in their state. We would apply as many resources as are needed to be done by January 1 of 2014, including, if necessary—there are 23,000 Department of Homeland Security personnel in the D.C. area.
I’m prepared to move up to half of them to Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. This is a doable thing.”
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CATEGORIES: Immigration | Newt Gingrich |
Saturday January 28, 2012
“Allowing Iran to get nuclear weapons under Ahmadinejad runs the direct risk of a second Holocaust. Two or three weapons placed properly in Israel is the equivalent of a second Holocaust.”
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CATEGORIES: Iran | Israel/Palestine | Newt Gingrich |
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