"There are deeper problems today than there were ten years ago," Gingrich said on Friday's Sean Hannity Show. "It is going to require us as a people to have the courage to face reality -- That we need to change things so that people can get jobs, they can get educated, they can have a better future."



"They don't need to feel hopeless and alienated," he continued. "The most worrisome thing about last night is the rise of people that feel so alienated that they think it is legitimate for them to go out and target white police officers. That is pure racism and it is a sad commentary on where Barack Obama has left America."



"Last weekend I think there was a shooting every two hours [in Chicago] on average. I would say the following," he said. "There is something tragic that the president, who spent much of his adult life in Chicago, his wife is a Chicagoan, he taught at the University of Chicago... and the leading Democratic probably nominee was born in Chicago, grew up as a Chicagoan until she went to college, and yet they have behaved as though people being killed in Chicago don't count, not a problem, not worthy of their attention."



"They've spent more time grandstanding on unique individual cases, which as you've pointed out they have consistently misstated, so it is a moment I think of real choice, and a time for us to really take seriously setting out act together as a country. When there is a police incident, it has to be investigated thoroughly, you can't have police brutality, but also recognizing that the overhwhelming majority of police officers in the country are risking their lives every single day as much as our men and women in uniform, and they are doing so to protect our civilization and our safety."



"There is a certain conversational opportunity for the country between Chicago and Minneapolis, Baton Rouge, Dallas, and we need to talk through having systems where people aren't afraid, and absolute total commitment to protect the police."