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Newt Gingrich

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People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz. I see evil around me every day.
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Atlanta Journal and Constitution, January 1994 , quoted in Connor, Tom (2011-10-19). NewtWit!. Doubleday. ISBN 9780307804792. 

 
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