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That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

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Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

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If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?

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Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.

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Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.

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Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.

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I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.

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If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

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Moderates shouldn't be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he's laid it forward. He's fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go.

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Newt changed the frame of reference of all of our candidates. That's why we won so big in 1994.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: January 22nd, 1935

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