Statements about History
"We balanced the budget with the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, and ultimately had four consecutive balanced budgets."
"When I was speaker, we had four consecutive balanced budgets."
The U.S. military is at risk of losing its "military superiority" because "our Navy is smaller than it's been since 1917. Our Air Force is smaller and older than any time since 1947."
"More Americans have lost their jobs under Barack Obama than any president in modern history."
Says he has "been able to attract independents and Democrats to win" elections in Pennsylvania.
In a watershed 1958 decision, "the Warren court asserted by itself that the Supreme Court was supreme over the president and the Congress."
"We’re $15 trillion now in debt, with a president that’s racked up as much debt as almost all of the other presidents combined."
"I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt."
Newt Gingrich "has suggested" building "a mirror system in space" could improve the Earth’s habitability.
President Barack Obama "has now spent three years proving that he kills jobs in energy, he kills jobs in manufacturing."
Says Newt Gingrich is responsible for the gridlocked politics of Washington.
Under President Barack Obama, "more Americans are in poverty ... than at any time since the Census Bureau began keeping records on it over 50 years ago."
Barack Obama is the "First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space."
"After every major conflict ... what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep, across-the-board cuts."
"We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic."
"When we got the income tax in 1913, the top rate was 7 percent. By 1980, the top rate was 70 percent."
When he took office in 2009, President Barack Obama "had the biggest Democratic majorities in Congress since Lyndon Johnson."
"President Obama has the lowest public approval ratings of any president in modern times."
More private-sector jobs were created in the second year of the Obama administration than in the eight years of the Bush administration.
The United States "won every major battle" of the Vietnam War. "Every single one."
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