Campaign Statements — Newt Gingrich

Thursday December 15, 2011

“Textbooks that are clearly teaching terrorism that are indirectly funded by the US through the UN.”

“I think most of us, most Americans would say you know if you are firing missiles at me, that may not be a good gesture. OK? The United Nations camps that we have helped fund have been training grounds for terrorism. As Congressman Bachmann pointed out the last time we debated, she was over there with textbooks that are clearly teaching terrorism that are indirectly funded by the United States through the UN. We have no obligation to lie and every obligation to tell the truth about how bad the UN bureaucracy is and why it ought to be fixed or we ought to radically cut what we’re paying.”

CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Newt Gingrich | War on Terror |

Wednesday December 14, 2011

“Sharia is a mortal threat to…the United States as we know it.”

“Sharia is a mortal threat to the survival of freedom in the United States and the world as we know it.”

CATEGORIES: Islamophobia | Newt Gingrich |

Monday December 12, 2011

“These people are terrorists…”

“Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth. These people are terrorists…It’s fundamentally time for somebody to have the guts to stand up and say, ‘Enough lying about the Middle East.’”

CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Newt Gingrich |

Saturday December 10, 2011

“Palestinian claim to a right of return is based on a historically false story.”

“The fact is, the Palestinian claim to a right of return is based on a historically false story. Somebody oughta have the courage to go all the way back to the 1921 League of Nations mandate for a Jewish homeland, point out the context in which Israel came into existence, and “Palestinian” did not become a common term until after 1977.”

CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Newt Gingrich |

Saturday December 10, 2011

“These people are terrorists.”

Somebody oughta have the courage to tell the truth: These people are terrorists. They teach terrorism in their schools. They have textbooks that say, ‘If there are 13 Jews and nine Jews are killed, how many Jews are left?’ We pay for those textbooks through our aid money. It’s fundamentally—time for somebody to have the guts to stand up and say, ‘Enough lying about the Middle East.’”

CATEGORIES: Islamophobia | Israel/Palestine | Newt Gingrich | War on Terror |

Saturday December 10, 2011

“Is what I said factually correct? Yes? Is it historically true? Yes.”

[In response to a question about chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat’s comment: “Mark my words: These statements of Gingrich will be the ammunition and weapons of the bin Ladens and the extremists for a long, long time.”] “How would he know the difference? Look from historic, George, simply. Is—is what I said factually correct? Yes. Is it historically true? Yes. Are we in a situation where every day, rockets are fired into Israel while the United States, the current administration, tries to pressure the Israelis into a peace process?

Hamas does not admit the—the right of Israel to exist, and says publicly, ‘Not a single Jew will remain.’ The Palestinian Authority ambassador to India said last month, “There is no difference between Fatah and Hamas. We both agree Israel has no right to exist.”

CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Newt Gingrich |

Saturday December 10, 2011

“They get residency. And the pay a penalty in order to get residency.”

“Well, I—that’s why you have the citizen review panel. The per—the person has to have been here 25 years, have genuine ties to the community, be a good citizen, and have an American family sponsor them. And they still don’t get citizenship. This is not amnesty. They get residency. And they pay a penalty in order to get residency. “

CATEGORIES: Immigration | Newt Gingrich |

Saturday December 10, 2011

“We should make deportation dramatically easier.”

“I think most of the workers who are here who have no ties to us should go home immediately. I think we should make deportation dramatically easier. This is, I think frankly we oughta make English the official language of government. And we oughta have an effective guest worker program with very severe penalties for those employers who hire people illegally.”

CATEGORIES: Immigration | Newt Gingrich |

Wednesday December 07, 2011

“I would fund every dissident group in [Iran].”

“I would focus…on [Iran’s] gasoline supply. I would fund every dissident group in the country.”

CATEGORIES: Iran | Newt Gingrich |