165 Quotes by Grover Norquist

  • Author Grover Norquist
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    It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong.

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  • Author Grover Norquist
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    We cannot allow anything that's called 'national defense' to justify any and all spending. We need to be very, very careful that we don't overspend and say, 'Oh, that's defense,' when perhaps it isn't.

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  • Author Grover Norquist
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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.

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  • Author Grover Norquist
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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,

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  • Author Grover Norquist
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    We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP 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.

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  • Author Grover Norquist
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    They tax when you earn a dollar, they tax you when you save it, they tax you when you invest it. If you earn a dividend, they tax it again, and if you're stupid enough to die, they steal up to half.

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  • Author Grover Norquist
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    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.

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