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" If you have to change the law to get more money, that's a tax increase, and Americans for Tax Reform supports all efforts of tax reform, getting rid of deductions or credits, or something that's misclassified, as long as you at the same time reduce rates so that it's not a hidden tax. "

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" Tax increases slow economic growth. Why would you raise taxes? We need to reform spending, the tens of trillions of unfunded liabilities can never be funded by tax increases, that can only be fixed by reducing spending. "

Grover Norquist

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You

Slow

" The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government. "

" Less government, less regulation, lower taxes. "

" I think it's very important to always make sure that you're talking to the entire coalition and to as many Americans as possible; not to go chasing after one little group or another. The Democrats would bring new groups into their party and not notice that larger groups are going out the back door. "

" Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith. "

" Immigration is America's No. 1 economic asset. The rest of the world can't do that. We can have every smart person we want, every high-skilled person we want. "

" My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. "

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

" A 20-pound weight on the back of a small horse is more damaging than a 20-pound weight on a very big horse. "

" 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. "

" Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time. "

" The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A lot of young people just starting out unskilled, as all Americans do when they're born here, come to this country, and so the business community is for immigration. Big businesses, small businesses, high-tech, low-tech, the communities of faith, and the Republican leadership. "

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

" Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore. "

Grover Norquist

Get

Kind

" 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. "

" Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged. It's one of those taxes that most clearly damages economic growth and jobs. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The taxpayer group in every state is always - always referred to as nuts. "

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

Grover Norquist

Lower

Taxes

" The statists want to control the economy. "

" Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure spending because it is easier than measuring actual metrics of accomplishment. "

" 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

Talk

" Compromise is moving in the right directlon more slowly than one might like. "

Grover Norquist

Moving

Right

" 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. "

" Historically, opposition to immigration in the United States has been racially and religiously motivated in the ugliest, nastiest way possible. "