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" Less government, less regulation, lower taxes. "
Grover Norquist
Less
Taxes
Regulation
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" Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again. "
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Time
Again
" 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. "
Grover Norquist
Law
Long
Money
" 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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Long
Two
Grow
" 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. "
Grover Norquist
American
History
Losing
" When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist. "
Grover Norquist
Thought
Myself
He
" 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
" 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
" 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
Government
Needs
Need
" 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. "
Grover Norquist
Hope
Fighting
Freedom
" It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong. "
Grover Norquist
Religion
Black
Improvement
" 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
" 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
" Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase. "
Grover Norquist
Cut
Tax Increase
Tax
" 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
Us
" The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand. "
Grover Norquist
Tax
Important
People
" 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
" 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
" The welfare state creates its own victim/client constituency. By making individuals free and independent, we reduce the need for 'charity' to those truly needy citizens what we can certainly afford to help through real charity. "
Grover Norquist
Free
Charity
Real
" The taxpayer group in every state is always - always referred to as nuts. "
Grover Norquist
Every
Nuts
Group
" 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
" 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. "
Grover Norquist
World
Smart
Rest
" People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate. "
Grover Norquist
People
Immigrants
Vote
" 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
Kind
Liberty
Freedom
" Our job is to make people free. "
Grover Norquist
Job
Free
Make
" 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
Never
You
Slow
" Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore. "
Grover Norquist
Get
Kind
Like
" If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources. "
Grover Norquist
Taxes
Other
Will
" People learn their politics at a young age and tend to stick with it. "
Grover Norquist
Learn
Politics
Young
" 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