Campaign Statements — Newt Gingrich
Sunday June 12, 2011
“In his recent speeches, President Obama also called for Israel to accept the 1967 lines as the beginning of peace negotiations. He went to great lengths to have us all believe that what he said at the State Department and later at AIPAC was no different than what other American presidents have declared as official policy.
Unfortunately, that’s just not true. President Obama has in fact called for a remarkable shift in U.S. policy regarding the peace process. He wants Israel to accept the indefensible lines of 1967 as the starting point of negotiations.
Accepting such a proposal would be a suicidal step for Israel.”
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Sunday June 12, 2011
“Today the greatest obstacle toward achieving a real and lasting peace is not the strength of the enemy or the unwillingness of Israel to make great sacrifices for the sake of peace, but an inability on the part of the Obama Administration and certain other world leaders to tell the truth about terrorism, be honest about the publicly stated goals of our common enemies, and devise policies appropriate to an honest accounting of reality.
Recall that during Congressional testimony last year, Attorney General Holder was repeatedly asked and yet could not bring himself to say that the ideology of radical Islamism plays a role in motivating Islamic terrorists to carry out their attacks.
The report issued in the aftermath of the Fort Hood attack, in which Major Nidal Hassan, who carried around business cards that said “warrior of Allah” and shouted Allahu Akbar while opening fire on unarmed men and women, did not once mention radical Islamism.
In an eerily similar incident at the Frankfurt airport earlier this year, a terrorist opened fire, yelling Allahu Akbar and killing two people.
Yet the State Department spokesman, when asked if it was a terrorist attack, responded by asking: “was the shooting of congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords a terrorist attack?”
This moral confusion, which cannot see the difference between the isolated, albeit depraved, actions of a madman, and an attack that fits into an carefully defined ideology of radical Islamist terrorism, is sadly typical of this administration’s elevation of political correctness above common sense.”
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CATEGORIES: Islamophobia | Newt Gingrich | War on Terror |
Saturday January 01, 2011
“We must reconcile the goal of legality with the reality that there are millions of immigrants currently here outside the law, some with a long set of family and community ties, and some with no ties. A system has to be established that establishes legality but no citizenship for those with deep ties, repatriates those with no family or community ties in a dignified way, and quickly sends home those who have committed criminal and other destructive acts.”
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CATEGORIES: Immigration | Newt Gingrich | Official Statements |
Saturday January 01, 2011
“Under no circumstance can a path to citizenship be created which would allow those who have broken the law to receive precedence over those who patiently waited to become residents and citizens via the legal process. Those who adhered to our immigration law cannot be usurped by those who violated it.”
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CATEGORIES: Immigration | Newt Gingrich | Official Statements |
Saturday January 01, 2011
“An Israel that accepts 1967 borders is an Israel that accepts the demise of the country.”
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CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Newt Gingrich | Official Statements |
Saturday January 01, 2011
“I think it’s useful to use covert operations to get rid of Muammar Gadhafi, but I don’t think the U.S. should have troops there. I think this whole effort to have forces on the ground has turned out to be a swamp, whether it’s Afghanistan, Iraq or Libya. Because we are not prepared to be engaged deeply enough to change the culture, and we are [only] prepared to engage deep enough to get in and out. And that leaves you with the worst of all worlds. Because over time your enemies hate you, your very presence leads to more people deciding you are their enemy. You become a symbol around which to organize anti-Western radicalism.”
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CATEGORIES: The Arab Spring | Iraq | Newt Gingrich | Official Statements | War on Terror |
Saturday January 01, 2011
“The whole concept of the Arab Spring is an interesting fantasy.”
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CATEGORIES: The Arab Spring | Newt Gingrich | Official Statements |
Saturday January 01, 2011
“America currently lacks a unified grand strategy for defeating radical Islamism. The result is that we currently view Iraq, Afghanistan, and the many other danger spots of the globe as if they are isolated, independent situations. Only a grand strategy for marginalizing, isolating, and defeating radical Islamists across the world will lead to victory.”
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CATEGORIES: Islamophobia | Newt Gingrich | Official Statements | War on Terror |
Tuesday August 17, 2010
[discussing Park 51] “Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington.”
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CATEGORIES: Islamophobia | Newt Gingrich |
Wednesday July 21, 2010
“[People] don’t understand that “Cordoba House” is a deliberately insulting term. It refers to Cordoba, Spain – the capital of Muslim conquerors who symbolized their victory over the Christian Spaniards by transforming a church there into the world’s third-largest mosque complex. Today, some of the Mosque’s backers insist this term is being used to"symbolize interfaith cooperation” when, in fact, every Islamist in the world recognizes Cordoba as a symbol of Islamic conquest. It is a sign of their contempt for Americans and their confidence in our historic ignorance that they would deliberately insult us this way.”
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CATEGORIES: Islamophobia | Newt Gingrich |
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