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" The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government. "

Grover Norquist

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" Obsessions turn people off. "

Grover Norquist

" 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

" Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith. "

Grover Norquist

" Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy. "

Grover Norquist

" 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

" I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that you come to Washington thinking it's a cesspool, you don't want to end up thinking it's really a hot tub and getting used to it. So that's something one has to keep an eye on all the time. "

Grover Norquist

" 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

" I was a math guy as a kid. I was really good at math. I wasn't particularly interested in it. "

Grover Norquist

" 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. "

Grover Norquist

" Less government, less regulation, lower taxes. "

Grover Norquist

" 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

" 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

" The Republican Party and the conservative free market movement have been presidentially focused for too long. "

Grover Norquist

" Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again. "

Grover Norquist

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand. "

Grover Norquist

" The statists want to control the economy. "

Grover Norquist

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

Grover Norquist

" 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

" 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

" There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government. "

Grover Norquist

" 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

" Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun. "

Grover Norquist

" 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