Grover Norquist Quotes

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• I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, Want, Size

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.

  Grover Norquist

  Thinking, Needs, Enough

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• All we have to do is replace Obama. ... We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. ... We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don't need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate.

  Grover Norquist

  Thinking, Years, House

  "Norquist: Romney Will Do As Told—David Frum". www.thedailybeast.com. February 13, 2012.

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• 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 anything.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, Self, Guy

  "Grover Norquist: The Soul of the New Machine" by Michael Scherer, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2014.

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• We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals, and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

  Grover Norquist

  Change, Trying, Nastiness

  "The Great Wealth Shift Upward: Corporatists’ War on the Working Class" by Michele Swenson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2011.

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• My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

  Grover Norquist

  Cutting, Government, Years

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

  Grover Norquist

  Democrat

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• Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, Law, People

  "15 Questions with Grover G. Norquist". Interview with Rebecca F. Elliott, www.thecrimson.com. November 18, 2010.

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• Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.

  Grover Norquist

  Gun, People, Stuff

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• People are an asset, not a liability. The United States is the most immigrant-friendly nation in the world and the richest country in the world. This is not a coincidence. Those voices that would make us less immigrant-friendly would make us less successful, less prosperous and certainly less American.

  Grover Norquist

  Country, Successful, Voice

  "GROVER NORQUIST: Immigration Reform Is A No-Brainer For The Economy". www.businessinsider.com. April 25, 2013.

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• What Mae West said about sex is true about taxes. All tax cuts are good tax cuts; even bad tax cuts are good tax cuts.

  Grover Norquist

  Sex, Cutting, West

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• Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable in their minority status, they will have no problem socializing with the Republicans. Any farmer will tell you that certain animals run around and are unpleasant, but when they've been fixed, then they are happy and sedate. They are contented and cheerful. They don't go around peeing on the furniture and such.

  Grover Norquist

  Running, Animal, House

  "Feingold Rides the Zeitgeist Over Eleanor Clift" by Digby, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• 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

  Government, Goal, Focus

  "Grover Norquist: 'The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit'". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. March 9, 2011.

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• 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

  Caring, Accomplishment, Doe

  "Grover Norquist vs. the Pentagon". Interview with Michael D. Ostrolenk, www.theamericanconservative.com. October 24, 2012.

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• Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.

  Grover Norquist

  Cutting, Gun, Subsidies

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• This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.

  Grover Norquist

  Military, Gun, Bureaucracy

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• One of the reasons some of the advocates of ever larger government and more government intrusiveness get nervous about discussions of the actual cost of government is that they fear if the people had a discussion about what government costs, the true cost of taxes, that they might not want as much government as they are presently getting.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, People, Cost

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• 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

  Party, Immigration, Reform

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• 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

  Teacher, House, Groups

  "Grover Norquist: The Soul of the New Machine" by Michael Scherer, www.motherjones.com. January 2004.

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• Home schoolers do not wish to force other parents to home school. Gun owners do not insist that others buy guns, or that hunting be promoted as an alternative lifestyle. It is not the National Rifle Association out lobbying to have government schools read books entitled 'Heather Has Two Hunters' to preschoolers. It is, in fact, the Left that now strives to use state power to impose its morality by forcing all taxpayers to pay for abortions and public "art" that mocks people of faith. It is the Left that forces parents to pay for government schools where they do not wish to send their children.

  Grover Norquist

  Art, Children, Book

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• 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

  Party, Thinking, Doors

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• 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

  Government, Years, Numbers

  "Interest Groups Are Suiting Up for Tax Cut Battle" by Thomas B. Edsall, www.washingtonpost.com. March 11, 2001.

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• It's the Democrats whose position is that the only problem in Washington, D.C., is the peasants aren't sending enough cash in for the king to spend.

  Grover Norquist

  Kings, Cash, Enough

  "One-on-one with Grover Norquist". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. November 27, 2011.

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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 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

  Eye, Thinking, Trying

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

  Grover Norquist

  Political, Way, Communist

  "15 Questions with Grover G. Norquist". Interview with Rebecca F. Elliott, www.thecrimson.com. November 18, 2010.

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