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Presidential Newt Gingrich Answers Hard Questions from Hannity Appearing on Hannity, presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich discusses his steady rise in the polls and answers his critics. He tells Hannity, "I've voted 7200 times in my career. I've given probably 15000 speeches. I've written 24 books, and have had 13 best sellers. The fact is, if you go through all that, you're going to find plenty of things to throw at me. The question is do the American people care? Are they going to say, "Okay, so the guy has written lots of stuff?" I mean, 24 books is a lot of words. You can find a paragraph here and a paragraph there. I think what people want to know is do I have solutions for America. Am I tough enough to take the heat? Do I have the experience? We've tried four years of inexperience and amateurism, do I have the experience to actually get it done?" Newt discusses his successes that include helping "create the first elected Republican House majority in over forty years, the first reelected majority since 1928. Welfare reform, the largest entitlement to be reformed so far, where two out of three people went to work or went to school, and everyone agrees it was tremendously successful in improving the lives of those who had been trapped in dependency." "We had the first tax cut in 16 years, the largest capital gains tax cut in American history. Unemployment dropped from 5.6 to 4.2%. We balanced the federal budget for four consecutive years and paid off $405 billion in debt. I insisted on strengthening the intelligence budget, and ... From: ngingrich Views: 17289 271 ratings Time: 19:02 More in News & Politics