The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
When I became 21, I decided that nobody learned anything about politics after the age of 21. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Smaller government, more individual responsibility, more individual control creates more Republicans. More state power and ownership and control and top-down decision-making creates… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
The question is: How do we reduce spending from 25% of GDP, which is where Obama put us? The focus is on… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Spending should be transparent. All spending by the Pentagon should be online. Every check. Exceptions should be made for legitimate national security… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
What's hurting the U.S. economy is total government spending. The deficit is an indicator that the government is spending so much money… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
One of the reasons some of the advocates of ever larger government and more government intrusiveness get nervous about discussions of the… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
This thought-provoking novel portrays the absurdity of our overbearing government bureaucracy with a story that is entertaining and fast-paced. The Taxman Cometh… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Home schoolers do not wish to force other parents to home school. Gun owners do not insist that others buy guns, or… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free.… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
If you feel the government should leave you alone, you're a Republican. If you think the job of the government is to… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. Because that person doesn't need the goddamn government for… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party might be called the Takings Coalition, made up of groups that want the government to take from American citizens… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
I want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP [gross national product] over the next 25… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
People learn their politics at a young age and tend to stick with it. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Someday I hope Americans will not believe that anyone had to spend his or her days fighting for limited government because everyone… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
When I became 21, I decided that nobody learned anything about politics after the age of 21. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
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… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Spending should be transparent. All spending by the Pentagon should be online. Every check. Exceptions should be made for legitimate national security issues. But… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
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… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Could I ask if there’s anything in between Step One and Step Two? ‘Oh ye of little faith.’ — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure spending because… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
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… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Historically, opposition to immigration in the United States has been racially and religiously motivated in the ugliest, nastiest way possible. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
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