I'm told that it would, my preference is to replace Teddy Roosevelt because Teddy Roosevelt was a statist and a progressive Republican as opposed to a Reagan Republican. Does Teddy Roosevelt deserve the kind of status that a Jefferson and a Washington have ? The answer is yes, Teddy Roosevelt does.

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Who is Ronald Reagan ? you do need to remind people. Americans, understandably, spend very little time looking backwards.

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He has said he doesn't want any net tax increases. That's a good start, that's the pledge, verbally. I'd like to see it in writing.

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I think a smarter position is to reduce taxes on everybody else. I mean, his taxes are lower than yours -- let's fix that by raising his? No, no, no, no, no, let's fix that by cutting taxes on the middle class.

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I think we'll get there, because his staff said they wanted to -- but the guys I talked to got fired. So we'll check in with the new guys.

Grover Norquist

As long as you're dramatically cutting other taxes -- it's a net tax cut and overall rates are not going up, sure you can do that.

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He's put forward something that will be part of any final Republican proposal, if you get a Republican president, what will they do? Something between what (House Ways and Means Committee Chair Paul) Ryan does, and this.

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

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Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. by Grover Norquist

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

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Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown i... by Grover Norquist

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

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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.

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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.

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Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners. by Grover Norquist

Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners.

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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.

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We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.

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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 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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