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

Grover Norquist

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" As more and more Americans own shares of stock, more and more Americans understand that taxing businesses is taxing them. Regulating businesses is taxing them. They ought to be thinking long-term about their ownership, not just their income, and that they should pay taxes on capital, as well as taxes on labor. "

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" I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised. Obama and the Democrats have a fight with the American people, not with me. "

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" I was a math guy as a kid. I was really good at math. I wasn't particularly interested in it. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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