Campaign Statements — Newt Gingrich
Tuesday November 22, 2011
“I did vote for the Simpson-Mazzoli Act. Ronald Reagan, in his diary, says he signed it—and we were supposed to have 300,000 people get amnesty. There were 3 million. But he signed it because we were going to get two things in return. We were going to get control of the border and we were going to get a guest worker program with employer enforcement. We got neither. So I think you’ve got to deal with this as a comprehensive approach that starts with controlling the border, as the governor said. I believe ultimately you have to find some system—once you’ve put every piece in place, which includes the guest worker program, you need something like a World War II Selective Service Board that, frankly, reviews the people who are here.
If you’re here—if you’ve come here recently, you have no ties to this country, you ought to go home. Period. If you’ve been here 25 years and you got three kids and two grandkids, you’ve been paying taxes and obeying the law, you belong to a local church, I don’t think we’re going to separate you from your family, uproot you forcefully and kick you out.
The Creeble Foundation is a very good red card program that says you get to be legal, but you don’t get a pass to citizenship. And so there’s a way to ultimately end up with a country where there’s no more illegality, but you haven’t automatically given amnesty to anyone.”
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CATEGORIES: Immigration | Newt Gingrich |
Tuesday November 22, 2011
“But if you’re trying to find somebody who may have a nuclear weapon that they are trying to bring into an American city, I think you want to use every tool that you can possibly use to gather the intelligence. The Patriot Act has clearly been a key part of that. And I think looking at it carefully and extending it and building an honest understanding that all of us will be in danger for the rest of our lives. This is not going to end in the short run. And we need to be prepared to protect ourselves from those who, if they could, would not just kill us individually, but would take out entire cities.”
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CATEGORIES: Civil Liberties | Newt Gingrich | War on Terror |
Tuesday November 22, 2011
“We need a strategy of defeating and replacing the current Iranian regime with minimum use of force. We need a strategy, as Rick Santorum was saying, of being honest about radical Islam and designing a strategy to defeat it wherever it happens to exist.We need a strategy in central Asia that recognizes that, frankly, if you’re Pashtun, you don’t care whether you’re in Pakistan or Afghanistan, because you have the same tribal relationships. So we need to be much more strategic and less tactical in our discussion.
But if we were serious, we could break the Iranian regime, I think, within a year, starting candidly with cutting off the gasoline supply to Iran, and then, frankly, sabotaging the only refinery they have.“
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CATEGORIES: Iran | Newt Gingrich |
Monday June 13, 2011
“The Pakistani who emigrated to the U.S. became a citizen, built a car bomb which luckily failed to go off in Times Square was asked by the federal judge, how could he have done that when he signed—when he swore an oath to the United States. And he looked at the judge and said, ‘You’re my enemy. I lied.’ ...if you’re not prepared to be loyal to the United States, you will not serve in my administration, period. We did this…with the Nazis and we did this in dealing with the communists. And it was controversial both times, and both times we discovered after a while, you know, there are some genuinely bad people who would like to infiltrate our country. And we have got to have the guts to stand up and say no.”
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CATEGORIES: Islamophobia | Newt Gingrich |
Sunday June 12, 2011
“Remember there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire. And I think that we’ve had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, and were historically part of the Arab community.”
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CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Newt Gingrich |
Sunday June 12, 2011
“Our commitment to condemning and confronting terrorism in the world must be matched by an equal commitment to affirm the efforts of oppressed Arab citizens who are taking extraordinary risks to seek true peace, freedom, and democracy. Both in the cases of the Iranian and Syrian popular uprisings, the Obama Administration’s glaring silence has undermined the strength of our commitment to freedom and solidarity with those peoples who are yearning to breathe free. And every terrorist group in the world takes note of that silence – whether Hamas, Hezbollah, or terrorist regimes like Iran.”
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CATEGORIES: The Arab Spring | Newt Gingrich |
Sunday June 12, 2011
“No country can be expected to conduct peace negotiations with a terrorist organization dedicated to its destruction, or with a Palestinian governmental authority that joins forces with such a terrorist organization. Because Hamas has not changed, an Israeli peace with Hamas is impossible. Twenty years of hopes for the modern peace process cannot change this fundamental reality. It also means that entering into peace negotiations with any organization that includes Hamas is a fool’s errand. It is something that no friend of Israel should ever ask Israel to do.”
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CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Newt Gingrich |
Sunday June 12, 2011
“If Israel disarmed today, there would be no Israel tomorrow. But if Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist groups disarmed today, then tomorrow we would have peace in the Middle East.
While our challenge today will likely not meet with such a simple solution, our commitment to Israel’s protection remains as staunch as it has been from the moment of Israel’s birth.
And I would also say this to the brave people of Israel: Never, ever underestimate the hold that Israel has on the American heart.”
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CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Newt Gingrich |
Sunday June 12, 2011
“The United States should also explicitly reject the concept of a “right of return” for Palestinian refugees. The so-called right of return is a historically impossible demand that would be a demographic disaster and mean the end of a Jewish State of Israel. We are for a right to prosperity, a right to freedom, a right to the rule of law, and a right to private property. We must be totally opposed to a right of return.
This means that the Palestinian refugee problem must be resolved outside the borders of Israel by the Palestinian government after Palestinian statehood has been achieved.”
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CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Newt Gingrich |
Sunday June 12, 2011
“The Iranian dictatorship is steadily and methodically developing nuclear weapons. All the world’s diplomatic meetings and four rounds of U.N. sanctions have not slowed the Iranian dictatorship down a single day.
The Iranian leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been very open and explicit about his desire to wipe Israel off the map. When you realize that only three Iranian nuclear weapons deployed against Israel would bring about the equivalent of a second Holocaust, you have to take his words seriously.”
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CATEGORIES: Iran | Israel/Palestine | Newt Gingrich |
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