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

Grover Norquist

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" 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

" 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. "

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" 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

" 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. "

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" Our job is to make people free. "

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. "

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" 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

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

Grover Norquist

" 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

" 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

" Less government, less regulation, lower taxes. "

Grover Norquist

" The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. "

Grover Norquist

" My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. "

Grover Norquist

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

Grover Norquist

" I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes. "

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

" Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore. "

Grover Norquist

" Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub. "

Grover Norquist

" 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. "

Grover Norquist

" Obsessions turn people off. "

Grover Norquist

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

Grover Norquist

" The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending. "

Grover Norquist

" Historically, opposition to immigration in the United States has been racially and religiously motivated in the ugliest, nastiest way possible. "

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

" The statists want to control the economy. "

Grover Norquist

" 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

" 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

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

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

" 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