"Just as having a lot of pens doesn’t make you a great writer, having a lot of ideas doesn’t make you a great thinker."

Also Bob Dole on Gingrich's five filing cabinets. The really little one is "Newt's Good Ideas"

«"To Fight the Flu, Change How Government Works." Without even knowing what comes next you can see the problem.»

"The issue of whether Americans should receive subcutaneous wireless RFID chip implants that can link to their electronic medical records emerged again in Wisconsin this week, where former governor and Bush Administration secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson is considering a run for Senate. Thompson was a former board member of VeriChip, the company that renamed itself PositiveID, and once appeared on CNBC with PositiveID CEO Scott Silverman to advocate that everyone receive a chip from birth…"

"His erudition, policy command and historical references may be assets when he's on a panel at the Heritage Foundation or AEI, but it just doesn't work at events like his speech today to attendees at the Conservative Political Action Committee national meeting. In little more than a half hour, Gingrich managed to reference the Judiciary Act of 1802, Camus’ The Plague, Orwell’s 1984, Hayek’s notions of centralized planning, and John Paul II. I was waiting for him to announced that copies of the speech's footnotes would be available in the lobby."

Newt's response in Spanish (or something that sounds similar) to his comments about bilingual education. [ via Andrew Phelps ]