Grover Norquist Quotes

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Grover Norquist

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 19, 1956

Someday I hope Americans will not believe that anyone had to spend his or her days fighting for limited government because everyone they know wants maximum freedom and minimum statism.

Grover Norquist

The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat.

Grover Norquist

People learn their politics at a young age and tend to stick with it.

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

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

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

Grover Norquist

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

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If you have to change the law to get more money, that's a tax increase, and Americans for Tax Reform supports all efforts of tax reform, getting rid of deductions or credits, or something that's misclassified, as long as you at the same time reduce rates so that it's not a hidden tax.

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I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

Grover Norquist

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

Grover Norquist

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways.

Grover Norquist

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

Grover Norquist

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

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

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.

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

Grover Norquist

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

Grover Norquist

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

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If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

Grover Norquist