Quotes by Grover Norquist

About Grover Norquist:

Grover Glenn Norquist is an American political advocate who is founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, an organization that opposes all tax increases and a co-founder of the Islamic Free Market Institute. A libertarian-leaning Republican, he is the primary promoter of the "Taxpayer Protection Pledge," a pledge signed by lawmakers who agree to oppose increases in marginal income tax rates for individuals and businesses, as well as net reductions or eliminations of deductions and credits without a matching reduced tax rate. Prior to the November 2012 election, the pledge was signed by 95% of all Republican members of Congress and all but one of the candidates running for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
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The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.

Grover Norquist

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

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Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Grover Norquist

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

Grover Norquist

The statists want to control the economy.

Grover Norquist

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

Grover Norquist

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

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I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

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Our job is to make people free.

Grover Norquist

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

Grover Norquist

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

Grover Norquist

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.

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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 notic...

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

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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...

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

Grover Norquist

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

Grover Norquist

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.

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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 military and civilian pay and retirement benefits are not state secrets. This has alrea...

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Tax increases slow economic growth. Why would you raise taxes? We need to reform spending, the tens of trillions of unfunded liabilities can never be funded by tax increases, that can only be fixed by reducing spending.

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We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghanistan helps make America a safer country, or not. I think at some point, we may decide that we don't have to have that size military and cost footprint in ...

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Author Bio

  • NameGrover Norquist
  • DescriptionConservative Lobbyist
  • BornOctober 19, 1956
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionLobbyist