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" We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing. "
Grover Norquist
Government
Needs
Need
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" Obsessions turn people off. "
Grover Norquist
People
Obsessions
Turn
" Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy. "
Grover Norquist
Want
France
Where
" 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
Today
Government
Best
" If you let people own their land, they take care of it. That's why privately owned land is always taken care of, and the parks look like cesspools. Nobody takes care of what everybody owns. "
Grover Norquist
Own
Look
You
" Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy. "
Grover Norquist
Economy
Average
Bigger
" 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 people around and take things for you, then you're a Democrat. "
Grover Norquist
Alone
Job
People
" I'm for tax reform, not tax increases. "
Grover Norquist
Tax Reform
Increases
Reform
" People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate. "
Grover Norquist
People
Immigrants
Vote
" 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
Fight
Government
People
" 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
Ownership
Own
Understand
" The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. "
Grover Norquist
Powerful
American
Tea
" We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them. "
Grover Norquist
Teachers
Unions
House
" The statists want to control the economy. "
Grover Norquist
Control
Economy
Want
" A lot of young people just starting out unskilled, as all Americans do when they're born here, come to this country, and so the business community is for immigration. Big businesses, small businesses, high-tech, low-tech, the communities of faith, and the Republican leadership. "
Grover Norquist
Business
Community
Leadership
" If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources. "
Grover Norquist
Taxes
Other
Will
" My wife and I have what's known as mixed marriage. I am a Methodist, she is a Muslim. So we're keeping it in the M's. "
Grover Norquist
I Am
She
Muslim
" 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. "
Grover Norquist
Tip
Money
Government
" 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
Know
You
Time
" There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government. "
Grover Norquist
Movement
You
Doors
" I think it's very important to always make sure that you're talking to the entire coalition and to as many Americans as possible; not to go chasing after one little group or another. The Democrats would bring new groups into their party and not notice that larger groups are going out the back door. "
Grover Norquist
Group
You
Think
" Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners. "
Grover Norquist
Expensive
Political
Winners
" The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government. "
Grover Norquist
Our Time
Government
Size
" If you're so committed to liberty that you see the Soviet Union as a threat, you're a Republican. If you're kind of indifferent to freedom and the level of the lack of freedom in the Soviet Union is just a question of extent and not really threatening to anybody, then you're a Democrat. "
Grover Norquist
Kind
Liberty
Freedom
" I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes. "
Grover Norquist
Am
Lower
Taxes
" The taxpayer group in every state is always - always referred to as nuts. "
Grover Norquist
Every
Nuts
Group
" The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease. "
Grover Norquist
Size
Disease
Focus
" The welfare state creates its own victim/client constituency. By making individuals free and independent, we reduce the need for 'charity' to those truly needy citizens what we can certainly afford to help through real charity. "
Grover Norquist
Free
Charity
Real
" 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
Hope
Fighting
Freedom
" 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. "
Grover Norquist
Vote
Quality
Home
" 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
Republican
Future
Immigration