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" 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
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" 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. "
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Unions
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" 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
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Own
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" Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy. "
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Average
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" 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
" 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. "
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Reason
Problem
" 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. "
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Economy
Most
Growth
" Reforming Social Security to make it fully funded and independently held, that's compassionate because it allows people to control their own lives; cutting taxes on families and all Americans to let people have more control over their lives. "
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Security
People
Own
" 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 central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government. "
Grover Norquist
Our Time
Government
Size
" 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
" 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
" Spending should be transparent. All spending by the Pentagon should be online. Every check. Exceptions should be made for legitimate national security issues. But military and civilian pay and retirement benefits are not state secrets. This has already been done in many state governments. "
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Security
Done
Pay
" 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
" 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
" The Republican Party and the conservative free market movement have been presidentially focused for too long. "
Grover Norquist
Republican
Free
Long
" 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
" Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again. "
Grover Norquist
Taxed
Time
Again
" The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending. "
Grover Norquist
Taxes
Too Much
Government
" 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
" The taxpayer group in every state is always - always referred to as nuts. "
Grover Norquist
Every
Nuts
Group
" 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
" 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
" Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national, state and local level for lower taxes, less government spending and limited government. "
Grover Norquist
Organization
Work
Government
" 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
" 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. "
Grover Norquist
I Am
She
Muslim
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Spending an extra dollar on the D.C. public school system isn't spending an extra dollar on education. Spending an extra dollar with the Pentagon doesn't buy you an extra dollar on defense. Republicans need to look skeptically at military spending. "
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Need
You
School
" 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