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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

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Grover Norquist
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: October 19
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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.
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Taxes are the killing fields of Democrats.
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Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent.
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Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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If the Republican Party works with the Hispanic community, the immigrant community, they're natural allies. People who came to this country are more freedom-loving and more American than people who just happened to be born here.
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There are a number of people who won't be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them.
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We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.
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When I became 21, I decided that nobody learned anything about politics after the age of 21.
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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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Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged.
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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.
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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.
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No Republican could expect to win the GOP nod after betraying his party's rank and file.
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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.
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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.
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Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll you don't get to dress yourself anymore.
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