Grover Norquist Quotes

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources. — Grover Norquist

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

Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy. — Grover Norquist

Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners. — Grover Norquist

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

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending. — Grover Norquist

No Republican could expect to win the GOP nod after betraying his party's rank and file. — Grover Norquist

There are a number of people who won't be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them. — Grover Norquist

The Republican Party and the conservative free market movement have been presidentially focused for too long. — Grover Norquist

We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause. — Grover Norquist

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

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

I admire Grover Norquist. I think he's done a lot of good. — Tom Cole

I always thought that Grover Norquist had a - he really is a true ideologue, in every sense of the word. — Nina Easton

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised. — Grover Norquist

My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries. — Grover Norquist

The taxpayer group in every state is always - always referred to as nuts. — Grover Norquist

We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship. — Grover Norquist

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country. — Grover Norquist

People learn their politics at a young age and tend to stick with it. — Grover Norquist

When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist. — Grover Norquist

Anti-Tax fetishist Grover Norquist owns a bust of Ronald Reagan, who raised taxes 11 times. — John Fugelsang

People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate. — Grover Norquist

Our job is to make people free. — Grover Norquist

Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government. — Grover Norquist

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. — Grover Norquist

We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to. — Grover Norquist

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

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

I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes. — Grover Norquist

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

Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this? — Grover Norquist

Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again. — Grover Norquist

Taxes are the killing fields of Democrats. — Grover Norquist

Compromise is moving in the right directlon more slowly than one might like. — Grover Norquist

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand. — Grover Norquist

Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase. — Grover Norquist

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

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub. — Grover Norquist

I was a math guy as a kid. I was really good at math. I wasn't particularly interested in it. — Grover Norquist

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

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. — Grover Norquist

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

The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government. — Grover Norquist

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower ... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low. — Grover Norquist

A 20-pound weight on the back of a small horse is more damaging than a 20-pound weight on a very big horse. — Grover Norquist

All competent conspiracies are carried out in public. — Grover G. Norquist

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. — Grover Norquist

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

Obsessions turn people off. — Grover Norquist

Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore. — Grover Norquist

Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy. — Grover Norquist

The statists want to control the economy. — Grover Norquist

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases. — Grover Norquist

My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. — Grover Norquist