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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. "
Grover Norquist
People
Immigrants
Vote
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" 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
" 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
" People learn their politics at a young age and tend to stick with it. "
Grover Norquist
Learn
Politics
Young
" Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy. "
Grover Norquist
Want
France
Where
" 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
" A 20-pound weight on the back of a small horse is more damaging than a 20-pound weight on a very big horse. "
Grover Norquist
Back
Small
Horse
" The Republican Party and the conservative free market movement have been presidentially focused for too long. "
Grover Norquist
Republican
Free
Long
" Compromise is moving in the right directlon more slowly than one might like. "
Grover Norquist
Moving
Like
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
More
" 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
" If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources. "
Grover Norquist
Taxes
Other
Will
" 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. "
Grover Norquist
Fight
Government
People
" Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again. "
Grover Norquist
Taxed
Time
Again
" 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. "
Grover Norquist
Size
Disease
Focus
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty. "
Grover Norquist
People
Law
Happiness
" Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners. "
Grover Norquist
Expensive
Political
Winners
" 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
" 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
" Our job is to make people free. "
Grover Norquist
Job
Free
Make
" If you feel the government should leave you alone, you're a Republican. If you think the job of the government is to go push people around and take things for you, then you're a Democrat. "
Grover Norquist
Alone
Job
People
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country. "
Grover Norquist
Party
Tea
Tea Party
" 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. "
Grover Norquist
People
Me
Fight
" The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government. "
Grover Norquist
Our Time
Government
Size