Erin Burnett, CNN: In your book, you talk about -- you knew Newt Gingrich, know Newt Gingrich.
Dick Cheney: He's an old friend.
Burnett: Alright, so he your guy? Does he have your vote?
Cheney: I have not endorsed anybody. I've stayed religiously out of the fray on our side this year. I've been trying to sell books. And that's where my effort's been focused.
Burnett: There's a conventional wisdom, though, that Newt Gingrich will cut his own legs off at some point, and that while he may sweep through the primary season, Mitt Romney's the guy you have that's actually electable versus Barack Obama. Is that a load of -- something, manure?
Cheney: I have not endorsed anybody on either side. The thing I remember about Newt, we came to Congress together at the same time, '78.
Burnett: Right.
Cheney: When Newt showed up he said, we can become the majority, we can take back the House of Representatives. We hadn't had the House since the 1940s. And initially, none of us believed it. But he was persistent, he was tenacious. He kept it up, kept it up, and kept it up. Finally by '94 he's the newly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives with a Republican majority. So I wouldn't underestimate him.
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