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" Historically, opposition to immigration in the United States has been racially and religiously motivated in the ugliest, nastiest way possible. "
Grover Norquist
Immigration
Possible
Opposition
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" What's hurting the U.S. economy is total government spending. The deficit is an indicator that the government is spending so much money that it can't even get around to stealing all of the money that it wants to spend. But the tip of the iceberg is not what hit the Titanic - it was the 90 percent of the iceberg under water. "
Grover Norquist
Tip
Money
Government
" If you let people own their land, they take care of it. That's why privately owned land is always taken care of, and the parks look like cesspools. Nobody takes care of what everybody owns. "
Grover Norquist
Own
Look
You
" We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing. "
Grover Norquist
Government
Needs
Need
" Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again. "
Grover Norquist
Taxed
Time
Again
" Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected. "
Grover Norquist
Debt
Us
Talk
" It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong. "
Grover Norquist
Religion
Black
Improvement
" Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone. "
Grover Norquist
Today
Government
Best
" Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith. "
Grover Norquist
People
Money
Faith
" Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government. "
Grover Norquist
Want
Most
Taxes
" We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghanistan helps make America a safer country, or not. I think at some point, we may decide that we don't have to have that size military and cost footprint in the country. You look at what you want to accomplish, how many soldiers you need. "
Grover Norquist
Think
Conversation
America
" This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in. "
Grover Norquist
Always
Bureaucracy
Out
" As long as we're focused on spending, there are only two ways to do that: One is spend less, and Democrats have no solutions for that. Or we have pro-growth policies that make the economy grow so the dead-weight cost of government becomes a smaller percentage of the economy and therefore less expensive. "
Grover Norquist
Long
Two
Grow
" Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national, state and local level for lower taxes, less government spending and limited government. "
Grover Norquist
Organization
Work
Government
" If the parties would brand themselves the way Coke and Pepsi and other products do so that you knew what you were buying, it had quality control. I vote for the Republican. He or she will not raise my taxes. I'll buy one. I'll take that one home. "
Grover Norquist
Vote
Quality
Home
" Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country. "
Grover Norquist
Party
Tea
Tea Party
" Spending should be transparent. All spending by the Pentagon should be online. Every check. Exceptions should be made for legitimate national security issues. But military and civilian pay and retirement benefits are not state secrets. This has already been done in many state governments. "
Grover Norquist
Security
Done
Pay
" There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government. "
Grover Norquist
Movement
You
Doors
" The question is: How do we reduce spending from 25% of GDP, which is where Obama put us? The focus is on total government spending. Can we bring it down, in a reasonable and politically acceptable way? That's what the Paul Ryan plan does. It puts us on a gradual reform path to reducing the size of government. "
Grover Norquist
Down
Government
Focus
" I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries. "
Grover Norquist
Car
Three
Listen
" We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy. "
Grover Norquist
Focus
Government
Left
" The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat. "
Grover Norquist
Government
Society
Political
" Tax reductions are usually simpler and less distortive. I'm certainly willing to look at getting rid of tax deductions/credits, and go to dramatically reduced rates. "
Grover Norquist
Rid
Tax
Willing
" People learn their politics at a young age and tend to stick with it. "
Grover Norquist
Learn
Politics
Young
" Someday I hope Americans will not believe that anyone had to spend his or her days fighting for limited government because everyone they know wants maximum freedom and minimum statism. "
Grover Norquist
Hope
Fighting
Freedom
" Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy. "
Grover Norquist
Economy
Average
Bigger
" Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun. "
Grover Norquist
Small
Gun
Time
" A 20-pound weight on the back of a small horse is more damaging than a 20-pound weight on a very big horse. "
Grover Norquist
Back
Small
Horse
" Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase. "
Grover Norquist
Cut
Tax Increase
Tax
" We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them. "
Grover Norquist
Teachers
Unions
House
" Obsessions turn people off. "
Grover Norquist
People
Obsessions
Turn