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Vote: | A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. |
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Vote: | If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as "candle making industry threatened". |
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Vote: | In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. |
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Vote: | It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated. |
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Vote: | The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument. |
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Vote: | We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something. |
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Vote: | What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots. |
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Newton Leroy Gingrich (born June 17, 1943) is an American politician who is best known as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. In 1995 he was named Time Magazine's Man of the Year.
He was born Newton McPherson in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the son of Kathleen and Newton McPherson. His parents separated soon after Newt's birth, and his mother raised him by herself until she married Robert Gingrich, who adopted Newt, hence the name change. Gingrich has a younger half-sister, Candace Gingrich, whom he rarely saw growing up (he was a young adult by the time of her birth).
Gingrich's adopted surname has been generally pronounced "Ging-gritch" since his entry into public life. However, his adoptive family has always pronounced the name "Gin-grick," as would be customary in the Pennsylvania Dutch ethnic milieu.
Education Gingrich attended school at various military installations and graduated from Baker High School, Columbus, Georgia, in 1961. He received a bachelor's degree from Emory University in Atlanta in 1965. He received a master's degree in 1968 and doctoral degree in 1971 in Modern European History from Tulane University in New Orleans. He taught history at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia, from 1970 to 1978.
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