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" I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes. "
Grover Norquist
Am
Lower
Taxes
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" Obsessions turn people off. "
Grover Norquist
People
Obsessions
Turn
" 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. "
Grover Norquist
Business
Community
Leadership
" The taxpayer group in every state is always - always referred to as nuts. "
Grover Norquist
Every
Nuts
Group
" I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that you come to Washington thinking it's a cesspool, you don't want to end up thinking it's really a hot tub and getting used to it. So that's something one has to keep an eye on all the time. "
Grover Norquist
Know
You
Time
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again. "
Grover Norquist
Taxed
Time
Again
" People learn their politics at a young age and tend to stick with it. "
Grover Norquist
Learn
Politics
Young
" 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
Going
Way
Think
" 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
" 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
" The Republican Party and the conservative free market movement have been presidentially focused for too long. "
Grover Norquist
Republican
Free
Long
" Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase. "
Grover Norquist
Cut
Tax Increase
Tax
" The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. "
Grover Norquist
Powerful
American
Tea
" 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. "
Grover Norquist
Success
Measure
Accomplishment
" If the Republican Party works with the Hispanic community, the immigrant community, they're natural allies. People who came to this country are more freedom-loving and more American than people who just happened to be born here. "
Grover Norquist
People
American
Community
" My wife and I have what's known as mixed marriage. I am a Methodist, she is a Muslim. So we're keeping it in the M's. "
Grover Norquist
I Am
She
Muslim
" I'm for tax reform, not tax increases. "
Grover Norquist
Tax Reform
Increases
Reform
" There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low. "
Grover Norquist
Too Much
Reason
Problem
" Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government. "
Grover Norquist
Want
Most
Taxes
" 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
" 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
People
Government
Find
" 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
" Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education. "
Grover Norquist
Education
Money
Name
" We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause. "
Grover Norquist
Noble
Because
Cause