Accomplishment Quote by Grover Norquist

“Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure spending because it is easier than measuring actual metrics of accomplishment.”

Grover Norquist

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When I became 21, I decided that nobody learned anything about politics after the age of 21.

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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…

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Spending should be transparent. All spending by the Pentagon should be online. Every check. Exceptions should be made for legitimate national security issues. But…

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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…

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Could I ask if there’s anything in between Step One and Step Two? ‘Oh ye of little faith.’

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We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.

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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…

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

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Historically, opposition to immigration in the United States has been racially and religiously motivated in the ugliest, nastiest way possible.

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

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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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There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

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I expected college to feel like a major accomplishment. I walked across the stage, eight months pregnant with my almost seven-year-old daughter watching in…

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