Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Grover Norquist

Related Quotes:

" 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

" Obsessions turn people off. "

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

" 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

" Compromise is moving in the right directlon more slowly than one might like. "

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

" The taxpayer group in every state is always - always referred to as nuts. "

Grover Norquist

" 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

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

Grover Norquist

" The statists want to control the economy. "

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

" Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position. "

Grover Norquist

" 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

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

Grover Norquist

" 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

" I'm for tax reform, not tax increases. "

Grover Norquist

" 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

" 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

" 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

" Less government, less regulation, lower taxes. "

Grover Norquist

" 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

" 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

" Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government. "

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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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