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" Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government. "
Grover Norquist
Want
Most
Taxes
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" The statists want to control the economy. "
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Economy
Want
" I'm for tax reform, not tax increases. "
Grover Norquist
Tax Reform
Increases
Reform
" 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
" 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. "
Grover Norquist
Ownership
Own
Understand
" 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
" Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy. "
Grover Norquist
Want
France
Where
" 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. "
Grover Norquist
Today
Government
Best
" The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. "
Grover Norquist
Powerful
American
Tea
" 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
" The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms. "
Grover Norquist
People
Free
Government
" The Republican Party and the conservative free market movement have been presidentially focused for too long. "
Grover Norquist
Republican
Free
Long
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Grover Norquist
Group
You
Think
" 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 important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand. "
Grover Norquist
Tax
Important
People
" 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. "
Grover Norquist
You
Practice
Strategy
" The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending. "
Grover Norquist
Taxes
Too Much
Government
" We cannot allow anything that's called 'national defense' to justify any and all spending. We need to be very, very careful that we don't overspend and say, 'Oh, that's defense,' when perhaps it isn't. "
Grover Norquist
Justify
Need
Say
" 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
" 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
More
" 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. "
Grover Norquist
Think
Conversation
America
" 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
" I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries. "
Grover Norquist
Car
Three
Listen
" 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
" 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. "
Grover Norquist
Economy
Most
Growth
" 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
" 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