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" I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways. "

Grover Norquist

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" Less government, less regulation, lower taxes. "

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" Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy. "

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" 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. "

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" Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government. "

Grover Norquist

" 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

" Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub. "

Grover Norquist

" 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

" Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged. "

Grover Norquist

" We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens. "

Grover Norquist

" 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

" People learn their politics at a young age and tend to stick with it. "

Grover Norquist

" We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause. "

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" Obsessions turn people off. "

Grover Norquist

" The future of the Republican Party, all the different folks looking to lead the Republican Party at the national level in the future, recognize we should do immigration reform. "

Grover Norquist

" When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist. "

Grover Norquist

" My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries. "

Grover Norquist

" 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

" People who are willing to stick to a strong pro-life position aren't going to be pushed off a strong anti-tax position. For people who like to think in ideologically cohesive ways, it makes no sense, but that's the way it is. "

Grover Norquist

" The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending. "

Grover Norquist

" If you're so committed to liberty that you see the Soviet Union as a threat, you're a Republican. If you're kind of indifferent to freedom and the level of the lack of freedom in the Soviet Union is just a question of extent and not really threatening to anybody, then you're a Democrat. "

Grover Norquist

" 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

" My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. "

Grover Norquist

" I'm for tax reform, not tax increases. "

Grover Norquist

" The statists want to control the economy. "

Grover Norquist

" People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate. "

Grover Norquist

" Smaller government, more individual responsibility, more individual control creates more Republicans. More state power and ownership and control and top-down decision-making creates more Democrats. "

Grover Norquist

" I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes. "

Grover Norquist

" There are several reasons to oppose tax increases. First, every dollar of tax increase is a dollar you didn't get in spending restraint. Two, if you walk into the Democrats' Andrews-Air-Force-Base, Lucy-with-the-Football trick for the third time in a row - they don't have have a saying for being fooled three times! "

Grover Norquist

" 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

" Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves. "

Grover Norquist