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" Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy. "
Grover Norquist
Want
France
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" 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
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Liberty
Freedom
" 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
" What's hurting the U.S. economy is total government spending. The deficit is an indicator that the government is spending so much money that it can't even get around to stealing all of the money that it wants to spend. But the tip of the iceberg is not what hit the Titanic - it was the 90 percent of the iceberg under water. "
Grover Norquist
Tip
Money
Government
" 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 was a math guy as a kid. I was really good at math. I wasn't particularly interested in it. "
Grover Norquist
Kid
Really
Math
" 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 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
" My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. "
Grover Norquist
Citizen
Permit
Ideal
" We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens. "
Grover Norquist
Want
Free
Government
" The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government. "
Grover Norquist
Our Time
Government
Size
" The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending. "
Grover Norquist
Taxes
Too Much
Government
" 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
Us
Talk
" Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government. "
Grover Norquist
Want
Most
Taxes
" 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. "
Grover Norquist
Down
Government
Focus
" 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. "
Grover Norquist
Goal
Down
Government
" People learn their politics at a young age and tend to stick with it. "
Grover Norquist
Learn
Politics
Young
" 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
" Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase. "
Grover Norquist
Cut
Tax Increase
Tax
" Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub. "
Grover Norquist
Size
Government
Goal
" Compromise is moving in the right directlon more slowly than one might like. "
Grover Norquist
Moving
Like
Right
" 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
" 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
" 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 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
" 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
" 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
" Obsessions turn people off. "
Grover Norquist
People
Obsessions
Turn
" I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes. "
Grover Norquist
Am
Lower
Taxes
" Our job is to make people free. "
Grover Norquist
Job
Free
Make
" 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