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" The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms. "
Grover Norquist
People
Free
Government
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" I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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Religion
Black
Improvement
" Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged. "
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Democrats
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" My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries. "
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Present
Control
Goal
" I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways. "
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Ways
Before
Other
" 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
" 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. "
Grover Norquist
Teachers
Unions
House
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
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People
Law
Happiness
" Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy. "
Grover Norquist
Want
France
Where
" The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand. "
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Tax
Important
People
" 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
" Obsessions turn people off. "
Grover Norquist
People
Obsessions
Turn
" The statists want to control the economy. "
Grover Norquist
Control
Economy
Want
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I'm for tax reform, not tax increases. "
Grover Norquist
Tax Reform
Increases
Reform
" 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. "
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Rid
Tax
Willing
" Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners. "
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Expensive
Political
Winners
" Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government. "
Grover Norquist
Want
Most
Taxes
" 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
" 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 future of the Republican Party, all the different folks looking to lead the Republican Party at the national level in the future, recognize we should do immigration reform. "
Grover Norquist
Republican
Future
Immigration
" 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
" 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. "
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Ownership
Own
Understand
" If the Republican Party works with the Hispanic community, the immigrant community, they're natural allies. People who came to this country are more freedom-loving and more American than people who just happened to be born here. "
Grover Norquist
People
American
Community
" There are several reasons to oppose tax increases. First, every dollar of tax increase is a dollar you didn't get in spending restraint. Two, if you walk into the Democrats' Andrews-Air-Force-Base, Lucy-with-the-Football trick for the third time in a row - they don't have have a saying for being fooled three times! "
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Three
Walk
Saying