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. Grover Norquist More Quotes by Grover Norquist More Quotes From Grover Norquist I want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP - gross national product - 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 governmentnumbersyears Alexander Hamilton has been on the $10 since 1928, he's been well honored by the country, he was a great Secretary of the Treasury. But of all the people on the currency, the only one who isn't a president. Grover Norquist presidentcountrypeople Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore. Grover Norquist marrieddollsdresses Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time. Grover Norquist usapracticerooms I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that you come to Washington thinking it's a cesspool, you don't want to end up thinking it's really a hot tub and getting used to it. So that's something one has to keep an eye on all the time. Grover Norquist eyetryingthinking 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 reformimmigrationparty 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 partycountrypeople Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone. Grover Norquist issuesgroupsgovernment Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position. Grover Norquist partytakenyears The Democratic Party might be called the Takings Coalition, made up of groups that want the government to take from American citizens -- usually cash -- and keep it for itself. Grover Norquist groupspartygovernment The statists want to control the economy. Grover Norquist economywant I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways. Grover Norquist communistpoliticalway The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue. Grover Norquist issuespartypowerful No Republican could expect to win the GOP nod after betraying his party's rank and file. Grover Norquist betrayalpartywinning I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending. Grover Norquist powerfulrunningcommitment The RNC has made a concerted effort to work with their allies with a real focus on what we can do to equip candidates with the resources to win in 2014 and beyond. There isn't a week that goes by that I don't see someone from the RNC at our weekly coalition meeting. Keep up the good work. Grover Norquist realwinningopportunity I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries. Grover Norquist murder-mysteriescarexercise Could I ask if there’s anything in between Step One and Step Two? ‘Oh ye of little faith.’ Grover Norquist stepslittlestwo There are a number of people who won't be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them. Grover Norquist presidentnumberspeople Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent. Grover Norquist small-businessdamagewant
