This is not one person doing one bad thing. You can't have a corrupt lobbyist unless you have a corrupt member (of Congress) or a corrupt staff. ... This was a team effort.


Newt Gingrich

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

They will recover their costs because the record reveals corrupt individuals within a corrupt agency...
LYNN HUGHES
Anyone in a position of power is either corrupt or assumed to be corrupt, and the assumption of corr...
STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL
Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN
They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my f...
IMELDA MARCOS
The system is not like a car, you can't buy parts when it breaks down or becomes corrupt. The system...
LAWRENCE CARTER (L.YIZRAEL)
I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.
BEAU WILLIMON
I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG
Hospitals are corrupt. Judges are corrupt. Everybody in the world is corrupt. But our newspapers are...
CHRISTIAN WILLIAMS
[One, he observes, is as a corrupt executive in] A Sound of Thunder, ... Thunderbirds.
RAY BRADBURY
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
One should become a peon rather than becoming a corrupt officer.
SABAHAT AHMAD
So if it seems like you're doing something different from what everyone else is doing, and if someti...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
You want to know something? There isn't a single witness in this case that testified - not a single ...
DAN K. WEBB
Whenever you see a corrupt person in life,you've just seen a very selfish person,for his idea is,thi...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Corrupt governments are run by corrupt politicians that run corrupt law enforcement agencies.
STEVEN MAGEE
Blame not the corrupt leaders anymore, go look for their parents.A corrupt leader is not well tutore...
FAGBAYIMU SAMSON ADEOLA
We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good ...
RAMEZ NAAM
Only poor people are corrupt. If you don't believe me, just go and ask a rich person.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
[The late-breaking action in the Houston criminal trial came moments after Harmon ruled that the jur...
ARTHUR ANDERSEN
The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
FREDRIK BACKMAN
Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA
A mentality is a terrible thing to corrupt. Be attentive of what your mind consumes.
TROY GATHERS
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
WILLIAM GADDIS
Often in life if you are aware about dubious double meanings, you have a corrupt mind and if you are...
APURVA GAGLANI
If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ...
MITCH ALBOM
You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a peopl...
WILL.I.AM
One of the reasons we have been so successful as a staff is every single staff person was a voluntee...
DEBRA CONNER
The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being c...
GEORGE ORWELL
Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.
MO IBRAHIM
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
WILLIAM GADDIS
Powerful always rule whether they are corrupt or a god
JAI SINGH
A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation wi...
ABHIJIT NASKAR
A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Corrupt utility companies require a corrupt legal system to protect them from their own sickened wor...
STEVEN MAGEE
You can have a network of 20 or 30 clubs across different continents, all of which have a corrupt el...
WILLIAM GAILLARD
If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and f...
BEN AFFLECK
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
HENRY KISSINGER
There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrup...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU
Take life on life's terms - one day at a time. And have fun while you're doing it.
JOE PERRY
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault...
OSCAR WILDE
Death is tough for the people left behind on earth.
PRATEEKSHA MALIK
People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and ...
FREDRIK BACKMAN
When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. No...
MILAN KUNDERA
Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but al...
CHARLES W. PICKERING
Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.
ALAN RUDOLPH
Fairfax County cut a tainted and corrupt deal with my son's killer, This scum, this murderer, killed...
STEVE TASH
Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz w...
KIM JOHN A. AGUIRRE
Whether voting Republican or Democrat, the result is the same: A corrupt corporate government.
STEVEN MAGEE
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
They range from fines to possible imprisonment and if the police decide that its a corrupt act and n...
DR HELENA CATT
He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly beco...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly bec...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
if you wanted to see me dead,you would whisper and i could kill self for you happiness it was a smal...
MOHAMMED ZAKI ANSARI
Tea?” Daniel asked, signaling to the innkeeper.
“Please. Or anything that is hot.” She pu...
JULIA QUINN
Finally, he reached his street. It was quiet, blessedly so, and the only sound was his own groan as ...
JULIA QUINN
His brows rose. “And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?”<...
JULIA QUINN
Then, with a cheeky quirk of his brows, he leaned forward and murmured, “Would it be improper of m...
JULIA QUINN
Daniel chuckled. Whoever that poor girl was, he hoped his family was paying her well.
And then,...
JULIA QUINN
Have you seen Frances?”

He tilted his head to the right. “I believe she’s off rooti...
JULIA QUINN
He said he loved me,” she whispered.

Daniel swallowed, and he had the strangest sensati...
JULIA QUINN
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt. . . . Idealists regarded everybody equally corrupt, ex...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON
Nothing threatens a corrupt system like a free mind.
SUZY KASSEM
If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
BOB MARLEY
If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that...
JAKAYA KIKWETE
To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ...
GARY F EVANS...
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, ex...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, exc...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
JOHN STEINBECK
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
JOHN STEINBECK
It appears that that's the jury has found one corrupt persuader but was unable to agree on which one...
ROBERT MINTZ
This world, is too comfort to be changed. This world, is too corrupt to be conserved.
TOBA BETA
Forgetting your Dear Lord, you enjoy corrupt pleasures, and so you shall have to embrace red-hot pil...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
A man who loves a bad name cares less about the future of his great grand children.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
When people lose their ties to the land they grow corrupt. Inevitably, they grow corrupt.
RUTH ALMOG
Nothing threatens a corrupt system more than a free mind.
SUZY KASSEM
When a plutocracy is disguised as a democracy, the system is beyond corrupt.
SUZY KASSEM
Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling
can corrupt an honest woman.
EURIPIDES
Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.
MIKKO HYPPONEN
You can’t really know yourself until you discover how corrupt you are.
VIKRANT PARSAI
When placing an emergency call, it is important to remember that a corrupt or incompetent cop may be...
STEVEN MAGEE
I was beginning to feel that I had finally found a place to stay, a place that was not so unstable o...
VERONICA ROTH
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKE
This world is too comfort to be changed.
This world is too corrupt to be conserved.
TOBA BETA
The USA is a beautiful country...when you take the corrupt corporations and their government minions...
STEVEN MAGEE
The Afghan government is as corrupt as a prostitute with a law degree.
CRAIG FERGUSON
The Trump administration is shaping up to be one of the most corrupt since the Gilded Age.
DAVID BROCK
Either make the tree food, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt...
BIBLE
During times of sour or bad relationship a good person will always exhibit a pleasant character.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL
Sometimes trying to know someone so well is not always good.
UZOMA NNADI
Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA
No. Nobody uses me... They always say that I'm being dictated upon by the people surrounding me. Tha...
FERNANDO POE, JR.
And Hermione was struggling to her feet in the wreckage, and three red-headed men were grouped on th...
J.K. ROWLING
Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here's what really happens: The spaces betw...
KRISTIN O'DONNELL TUBB
He Is Not Dead

I cannot say, and I will not say
That he is dead. He is just away. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
From the day after we lose someone, how we lost them doesn't matter. All that matters now is that th...
CHAD PELLEY
When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.
MADELINE MILLER
I’d give in to the grief but make sure I wasn’t loud enough to draw attention from those who thi...
ADAM SILVERA
It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-ou...
WALTER MOSLEY

More Newt Gingrich

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, a...
NEWT GINGRICH
I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious ...
NEWT GINGRICH
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, Candle ma...
NEWT GINGRICH
We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!
NEWT GINGRICH
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
NEWT GINGRICH
Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It take...
NEWT GINGRICH
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliche...
NEWT GINGRICH
I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrat...
NEWT GINGRICH
Is the purpose of free elections to allow the most clever and vicious person to aggregate power, or ...
NEWT GINGRICH
Somehow we must reintegrate the scientific with the popular and reconnect the future to the present....
NEWT GINGRICH
We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare ...
NEWT GINGRICH
I discourage a cult of personality.
NEWT GINGRICH
The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about th...
NEWT GINGRICH
We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.
NEWT GINGRICH
In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increas...
NEWT GINGRICH
And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for ...
NEWT GINGRICH
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.
NEWT GINGRICH
If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very ...
NEWT GINGRICH
I've been very clear publicly I'm not a perfect human being, and I've made mistakes in m...
NEWT GINGRICH
I think you can write a psychological profile of me that says I found a way to immerse my insecuriti...
NEWT GINGRICH
If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember y...
NEWT GINGRICH
If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignora...
NEWT GINGRICH
All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 week...
NEWT GINGRICH
I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to gover...
NEWT GINGRICH
If you're not brave, you're not going to be free.
NEWT GINGRICH
I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you...
NEWT GINGRICH
The genius of guys like Lincoln and Reagan and FDR - the great communicator leaders - is that they&#...
NEWT GINGRICH
Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington.
NEWT GINGRICH
This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership ...
NEWT GINGRICH
The most important social welfare program in America is a job.
NEWT GINGRICH
Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of findi...
NEWT GINGRICH
My style is to stay on the offensive: to take risks, to recover very fast when you make a mistake, b...
NEWT GINGRICH
One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nation...
NEWT GINGRICH
I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill ...
NEWT GINGRICH
Cincinnati has one of the most diverse animal collections in the world, with more than 500 species r...
NEWT GINGRICH
You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no...
NEWT GINGRICH
It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.
NEWT GINGRICH
Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and ter...
NEWT GINGRICH
If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?
NEWT GINGRICH
I was once, I think, bitten on the nose by a lion cub.
NEWT GINGRICH
The values of the Left cripple human beings, weaken cities, make it difficult for us to in fact surv...
NEWT GINGRICH
You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer i...
NEWT GINGRICH
The fact is inner-city black districts are not the same as suburban Republican districts. That's...
NEWT GINGRICH
Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key deli...
NEWT GINGRICH
The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful.
NEWT GINGRICH
It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.
NEWT GINGRICH
Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined,...
NEWT GINGRICH
By definition, the person who learns enough to become the nominee is almost certainly the best perso...
NEWT GINGRICH
The Central Park Zoo is a little gem in the middle of the city. Its penguin exhibit is terrific, and...
NEWT GINGRICH
If Saddam Hussein goes back on his word,
NEWT GINGRICH
In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision.
NEWT GINGRICH
It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just pl...
NEWT GINGRICH
I love the environment, but I'm cheap on the environment.
NEWT GINGRICH
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sou...
NEWT GINGRICH
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of the hard work you already did.
NEWT GINGRICH
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as "candle ma...
NEWT GINGRICH
All free people stand on Reagan's shoulders. His principled policies proved that free markets create...
NEWT GINGRICH
The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they deman...
NEWT GINGRICH
Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for 'religious toleration' are arrogantly dis...
NEWT GINGRICH
Why not aspire to build a real Jurassic Park?
NEWT GINGRICH
Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would proba...
NEWT GINGRICH
I am for deporting all recent unattached illegals. I am for a local citizen panel to consider certif...
NEWT GINGRICH
The thing that shocks people... is that I mean what I say. I don't use hyperbole.
NEWT GINGRICH
If you take all the money we've spent at NASA since we landed on the moon and you had applied th...
NEWT GINGRICH
In five or six days, I can meet more interesting people here than any place I know,
NEWT GINGRICH
He is purely and simply the most important developer of effective management and of effective public...
NEWT GINGRICH
We're not in a values fight now but over whether the system is working. The issue is delivery.
NEWT GINGRICH
I think the challenge to Republicans now is you have the House, you have the Senate, you have the Wh...
NEWT GINGRICH
This is a crossroads for the Bush presidency. This is a very exciting period about what is effective...
NEWT GINGRICH
The whole process is broken.
NEWT GINGRICH
Ideas precede reform. If you can't think it, you can't say it and you can't do it.
NEWT GINGRICH
We clearly need the Republican Party to reacquire a movement that designs a 21st century Contract wi...
NEWT GINGRICH
Every year that we wait, the risk increases. I would hope that the administration would decide to do...
NEWT GINGRICH
I don't think the Congress could move forward only on Lewinsky, unless he had such a clear case, suc...
NEWT GINGRICH
In Henry's case, it's human and it's personal and he's a decent and wonderful man, and many of you h...
NEWT GINGRICH
This is not because IRS employees are bad human beings or lazy human beings or stupid human beings; ...
NEWT GINGRICH
[On the Supreme Court striking down a law barring] indecent ... I think we're better to have a crash...
NEWT GINGRICH
What the president should recognize is that the American people are tired of thousands of pages of r...
NEWT GINGRICH
How this president handles the Middle East in general and wins in Iraq in particular will be probabl...
NEWT GINGRICH
Unequivocally, the House Republicans need to select a new majority leader in late January or early F...
NEWT GINGRICH
This is a crossroads for the Bush presidency, ... This is a very exciting period about what is effec...
NEWT GINGRICH
I found everything we've seen about Mrs. Willey's testimony ... to be very troubling,
NEWT GINGRICH
I spent 40 years of my life getting us here, ... The idea that I would be the excuse to cannibalize ...
NEWT GINGRICH
If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant p...
NEWT GINGRICH
I think we prefer to go to instant check on an immediate basis and try to accelerate implementing in...
NEWT GINGRICH
I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting...
NEWT GINGRICH
Because I am much like Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, I'm such an unconventional political figure...
NEWT GINGRICH
When you wake up in the morning and lose 14 marines, people say, 'What's going on?'
NEWT GINGRICH
We probably should have almost maniacally focused on cutting taxes, reforming government, working on...
NEWT GINGRICH
I think Secretary Powell is an extraordinary figure and I think he's a very effective advocate, but ...
NEWT GINGRICH
[House Speaker Newt Gingrich said,] I am glad now that the election is over to see that the presiden...
NEWT GINGRICH
Instead of Theodore Roosevelt's 'talk softly and carry a big stick,' we have yelled and carried a to...
NEWT GINGRICH
What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If [voters] care about parki...
NEWT GINGRICH
I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to ...
NEWT GINGRICH
It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing...
NEWT GINGRICH
You can't trust anybody with power
NEWT GINGRICH
there are pieces of the bill he [Clinton] doesn't like, that's why we're going to have a conference,...
NEWT GINGRICH
Islamic extremism may well be the greatest threat to Western values and Western security in the worl...
NEWT GINGRICH
To David Sarnoff, the creator of NBC, the word 'visionary' meant a capacity to see into tomorrow and...
NEWT GINGRICH
Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
NEWT GINGRICH
I think he is one of the two greatest presidents of the 20th century, along with Franklin Delano Roo...
NEWT GINGRICH
I had a period of thinking that I would have been called 'Newt the McPherson,' as in 'Ro...
NEWT GINGRICH
The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there ...
NEWT GINGRICH
We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.
NEWT GINGRICH
There was no finding by the committee that I purposely tried to deceive anyone,
NEWT GINGRICH
NASA should not be developing its own proprietary version of capabilities it could purchase commerci...
NEWT GINGRICH
Philosophically, I am very different from normal politicians, and normal consultants found that very...
NEWT GINGRICH
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.
NEWT GINGRICH
I figure when the steer wants to go somewhere, you get out of the way,
NEWT GINGRICH
I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigr...
NEWT GINGRICH
Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not econom...
NEWT GINGRICH
If Trump keeps learning, he could become a big asset. He will shatter the traditional patterns.
NEWT GINGRICH
So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'...
NEWT GINGRICH
Whether you're talking about Chris Christie, or you're talking about Rick Perry or Scott Wal...
NEWT GINGRICH
Das Amt für Desinformation pflegt nur bei schwersten Zusammenstößen von Magierwelt und Muggeln t�...
NEWT SCAMANDER
Sollte ein Muggel so unklug sein, einem anderen anzuvertrauen, er habe einen Hippogreif gesehen, der...
NEWT SCAMANDER
People change after a while, and they're no longer who you once knew
NEWT SCAMANDER
My philosophy is if you worry, you suffer twice.
NEWT SCAMANDER
One of the things that makes Youth Pride Day great is that they can be who they are and not get pres...
CANDACE GINGRICH
It's good for us to be able to talk to the folks that we're working for.
CANDACE GINGRICH
They want to take this to the ultimate extreme. If we go by the history of amendments to the Constit...
CANDACE GINGRICH
In addition to those one million gay Republicans reported to have voted for Bush, we are talking abo...
CANDACE GINGRICH
This is a hate crime and should be investigated as a hate crime.
CANDACE GINGRICH
The Accidental Activist: A Personal and Political Memoir
CANDACE GINGRICH
A leaky faucet, a barking dog - those are things you tolerate
CANDACE GINGRICH
the falling poll numbers, on the deficit and the lack of jobs that have been produced.
CANDACE GINGRICH
At a minimum, you're trading off two brands that had been the source of a lot of headaches where ove...
JIM GINGRICH
I was in there as soon as they would let me in.
LEAH GINGRICH
I don't know what events I'll want to swim next year.
LEAH GINGRICH
(Saturday) I thought I was going slower than I was.
LEAH GINGRICH
I'm much more excited (today). I wanted that record bad, especially since (Friday) I just missed it.
LEAH GINGRICH
The meets like the Olympic Trials are much more intense than states. This is pretty relaxing.
LEAH GINGRICH
I wanted that record pretty badly, so I was kind of upset after the race.
LEAH GINGRICH
I wanted to be around a 4:50, but I was happy with this. Sometimes (being pushed) helps me. I probab...
LEAH GINGRICH
Great. We're all bloody inspired.
NEWT THE MAZE RUNNER BY JAMES DASHNER