“I have two grandchildren: Maggie is 11; Robert is 9. I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they're my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.”

— Newt Gingrich

2011-03-27, quoted in * Kendra
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Newt Gingrich talks faith — not affairs — at Cornerstone Church in Texas
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