Grover Norquist Quotes

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Grover Norquist

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 19, 1956

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

Grover Norquist

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.

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.

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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.

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

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We cannot allow anything that's called 'national defense' to justify any and all spending. We need to be very, very careful that we don't overspend and say, 'Oh, that's defense,' when perhaps it isn't.

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We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.

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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.

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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.

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People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate.

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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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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.

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Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith. And because the Democratic Party was taken over by the aggressive secular guys, they became hostile not just to conservative Catholics and evangelical Christians, but Orthodox Jews and Muslims and Mormons.

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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.

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We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause.

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Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase.

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

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

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