Campaign Statements — Newt Gingrich
Thursday January 19, 2012
“I want to make the point that on the very first day that I’m inaugurated, I will issue an executive order to the Justice Department to drop the lawsuits against South Carolina, Alabama and Arizona. The federal government should enforce the law, not stop states from helping it enforce the law.”
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CATEGORIES: Immigration | Newt Gingrich |
Thursday January 19, 2012
“I don’t think we’re going to deport grandmothers and grandfathers who have 25 years of networking and relationships in a community. So I’ve suggested a World War II-style draft board where local citizens would review the applications, you could only apply if you proved that you were financially responsible, you proved you had genuine family ties, and you had an American family sponsor you. You still wouldn’t get amnesty; you wouldn’t get citizenship. You would get a residency permit. In order to apply for citizenship, you would have to go back to your own country and get in line behind everybody else and be processed as a person from that country.
But I think it would—I think this is a doable, solvable, practical solution. And I think trying to deport grandmothers and grandfathers will never pass the Congress and would never be accepted by the American people.”
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CATEGORIES: Immigration | Newt Gingrich |
Thursday January 19, 2012
“I favor English as the official language of government, and I think that creates a continuity.”
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CATEGORIES: Immigration | Newt Gingrich |
Thursday January 19, 2012
“I don’t think you can pass a comprehensive bill, because nobody trusts the government. So first, you control the border. We have a bill that would have it controlled by January 1, 2014. And—and I’m prepared both to waive all federal regulations to get it built and controlled by 2014, and I’m prepared to move up to half the people who work for Homeland Security, about 20—they have 23,000 employees in Washington. I’d be prepared to move half of them to Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, if that’s what it took to control the border.”
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CATEGORIES: Immigration | Newt Gingrich |
Wednesday January 18, 2012
“I fully expect as president that there will be several occasions when we will collide. The first one, which is actually foreign policy, the Boumediene decision which extends American legal rights to enemy combatants on the battlefield is such an outrageous extension of the court in to the commander in chief’s role.
I will issue an instruction on the opening day, first day I’m sworn in, I will issue an executive order to the national security apparatus that it will not enforce Boumediene and it will regard it as null and void because it is an absurd extension of the supreme court in to the commander in chief’s (authority).”
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CATEGORIES: Newt Gingrich | War on Terror |
Monday January 16, 2012
“Nobody believes that bin Laden was sitting in a compound in a military city one mile from the national defense university and the Pakistanis didn’t know it. Now…We’re in South Carolina. South Carolina in the Revolutionary War had a young 13-year-old named Andrew Jackson. He was sabred by a British officer and wore a scar his whole life. Andrew Jackson had a pretty clear-cut idea about America’s enemies: Kill them.”
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CATEGORIES: American Exceptionalism | Newt Gingrich | War on Terror |
Saturday January 07, 2012
“If you’re worried about the Iranians in Iraq, develop a strategy to replace the Iranian dictatorship and Iraq will be fine.”
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CATEGORIES: Iran | Iraq | Newt Gingrich |
Saturday January 07, 2012
“I think we need a fundamentally new strategy for the [Middle East] comparable to what we developed to fight the cold war.”
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CATEGORIES: Afghanistan | Iran | Newt Gingrich | War on Terror |
Saturday January 07, 2012
“Afghanistan is a tiny piece of a gigantic mess that is very dangerous. Pakistan is unstable and they probably have between 100 and 200 nuclear weapons. Iran is actively trying to get nuclear weapons. I mean they go out and practice closing the Strait of Hormuz, where one out of every six barrels of oil goes through every day. And if they close the Straits of Hormuz, you have an industrial depression across the planet within 48 hours. You have the Muslim Brotherhood winning the elections in Egypt. The truth is, we don’t know who’s in charge in Libya.”
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CATEGORIES: Afghanistan | The Arab Spring | Iran | Newt Gingrich | War on Terror |
Saturday January 07, 2012
“Should the Catholic Church be driven out of providing charitable services in the District of Columbia because it won’t give in to secular bigotry?”
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CATEGORIES: Islamophobia | Newt Gingrich |
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