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...Gingrich: First of all, we kept our word, and I think that changes the underlying dynamic of politics in terms of promises made, promises kept in the Contract with America. We're trying to actually have an adult conversation with the American people instead of a 30-second pandering...
...Gingrich: Yes. It would be thinkable if they won the election in '96, and I think if there was a Democratic majority in Congress, they would raise taxes in '97. But in this context...
...Gingrich: There is this false issue, which it's taken me at least all year to fully understand: in modern America, compassion equals bureaucracy. If you're not for bureaucracy, you're not for compassion. I thought we were off to a good start with it last spring, but I think now it has to be a much bigger effort to really have the whole party move in that direction...
...Gingrich: I don't know. I don't want to read anything into what Buchanan has said. What I can tell you is, I think your description of the debate is only a partial statement. First of all, the core problem is culture, it's not redistributionism; second, that decentralized charities that have a sense of spirit and passion are vital; third, that bureaucracies that are anonymous are devastating; fourth, that you have to have incentives at the micro level for individuals; and that fifth, you want to maximize the creation of wealth and the acquisition of wealth rather than...
...CORRESPONDENT Karen Tumulty, the voyage to this year's Man of the Year cover began 14 months ago in an eight-seat commuter plane flying from Oklahoma City to Rochester, Minnesota, with a colorful but still relatively obscure U.S. Congressman named Newt Gingrich. Tumulty had just joined TIME's Washington bureau from the Los Angeles Times and was assigned to follow the Representative from Georgia who had suddenly grabbed the national spotlight by leading a conservative charge that took even his Republican Party compatriots by surprise. As one of just a few reporters on the road with Gingrich, Tumulty watched...