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" 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. "

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" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Grover Norquist

Thought

Myself

" Our job is to make people free. "

" 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. "

" 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

" Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase. "

" Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent. "

Grover Norquist

You

Business

" The Republican Party and the conservative free market movement have been presidentially focused for too long. "

" 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. "

" It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position in American history for 200 years. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Grover Norquist

Moving

Right

" 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

Power

Responsibility

" 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. "

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