Grover Norquist Quotes (55 Quotes)

Obsessions turn people off.

I tend to think that the more pro-reform candidate will win.

He doesn't get anything that the people of West Virginia don't pay for many times over in pork barrel projects in other states.

All trends start with small sets of data points. But if you flesh in the picture for the year, that's not the case at all.

an act of utter betrayal.

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.

We will be regaling little baby Republican governors in the future with scary ghost stories about what happens to Republican governors who decide to loot the people rather than to govern.

If you're a Republican governor or aspiring governor, what you learned from this is that opposition to a spending limit destroys a political career - this guy stood in front of a train.

A vote in the state legislature to allow a local government to impose a higher tax is not opposing tax increases. This isn't higher-level math.

Not indicting Rove is hugely helpful to Rove and the White House. Shooting match over They tried to kill Rove and failed.

What they don't have are unreasonable expectations of what can be moved through Congress.

The good news is, for those of us who think that sometimes the (conservative) radio talk show hosts go nuts and worry that the White House will feel rattled, this is not a rattled statement.

But when it was time to aim for the White House, it was crucial that he get the tax music exactly right the whole strategy depended on it, and not just for winning the primaries. If conservatives came to think Bush was an ardent tax cutter, they would be willing to let him roam much closer to the center on just about everything else to win the heart of independents. He moved the party on immigration and education, ... but no Republican could have abandoned tax cuts and won the primary, or the general.

His legacy is one of patriotism, dignity and strong moral character. We should continue to preserve this legacy throughout the United States and abroad.

ATR was opposed to a government-run lottery for the same reason we're opposed to government-run steel mills,

There are going to be some bruised feelings. There's a sense that the White House asked us to salute without any preparation. But those bruised feelings will get better over time.

I think Karl Rove is going to learn how little the rest of the country even knows his name. Whatever comes out of this, it is less of a scandal than the administration's critics had hoped it would be.

If Iraq is in the rearview mirror in the '06 election, the Republicans will do fine. But if it's still in the windshield, there are problems.

Publicly, Republicans stood by their embattled colleague Wednesday. Privately, some began to talk of a post-DeLay era. Either way, they were hopeful that, whatever happened with the legal troubles, DeLay had institutionalized his fundraising and vote-whipping prowess so much that it would outlive him. He is a conviction politician like Ronald Reagan he's also been a party builder, ... DeLay always kept his eye on building party and the movement, and that's rare.

I hope you read them carefully and you'll see that there's nothing here that says who to vote for or who to vote against. It's strictly on the issue of Medicare.

Hurricane Katrina has set off a revolt in the Republican constituency, so I believe Bush will need to find spending restraints and the country will focus on that in 2006 and 2008,

Some people say Kleenex when they mean tissue. We will jealously guard the real phrasing the way Kleenex and Coca-Cola do. We will sue anyone who says it wrong and make lots of money.

Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform and host of the other meeting, declined to comment on the discussion because of its presumption of confidentiality but said there is widespread concern given the experience with the nomination of Justice David H. Souter, who proved more liberal once on the bench. There's a great deal of frustration because of the Souter experience, ... The problem is there's no fixing, there's no allaying those fears. For the president to say 'Trust me,' it's what he needs to say and has to say, but it doesn't calm the waters.

Many of us remember what happened with RICO, ... It was originally passed and they were going to go after organized crime figures in dark shirts and they ended up using it against pro-life demonstrators years later.

It reminded me of 'Irish need not apply' ads.

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

The use of controlled substances for legitimate research purposes is well-established, and has yielded a number of miracle medicines widely available to patients and doctors. This case should be no different. It's in the public interest to end the government monopoly on marijuana legal for research.

This is not just a job about monetary policy anymore. Whoever Bush picks will be seen as a great economic spokesperson, period.

There is a test of Republicans on this. The country will let you get away with this in the wake of 911, but that doesn't make it right.

The statists want to control the economy.

If both Oklahoma and Washington reject tax increases, it sends a message to lawmakers that we do not like your priorities. Knock it off, ... I think it will lead to more government reform and fewer votes on tax increases.

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.

It's the ultimate goal of what we're trying to do. We want constitutional limits on the size of government.

The idea of the Senate sticking an emergency bill full of pork and sending it to the president to veto is a gift from the gods. Prior to this, the problem was ignored. It needs to be dealt with, and there needs to be a public wrestling.

Colorado is in much better shape than other states because for 10 years it has had some modest discipline.

I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts, ... using this tragedy and those deaths for his own political desires.

Republicans shouldn't be on the wrong side of this issue. It is sound economics, it is sound policy and it is good politics. I think it would be helpful if the president was more forceful.

A tax increase offset by larger tax cuts may or may not be a good idea, but it's not a sin.

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

created a Republican cause and majority in the House that is self-sustaining.

If you are perceived as hostile to the immigrant community, you will not only lose their vote for this generation but for the next four generations. That's what we cannot do with Hispanics.

Alexander Hamilton has been on the ten for a long time and it's no disrespect to him, but in the past when presidents have passed away, they have replaced other people that weren't presidents,

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.

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

Don't talk to Congress. Do executive orders.

Why are people feeling better Because they have real increases in wealth.

It's a signal from the president that anyone involved in putting that package together is in sync with where the White House wants to go.

The lesson to be learned from Colorado is that a governor who could have been president, once he turned on TABOR, ended his national ambitions, ... Being on the wrong side of this issue is a career-ender.

The Coburn amendment was an incredibly important thing. Instead of gentlemen deferring to each other, we saw a humiliating vote on a colleague's efforts to loot the general public.

Every worker who doesn't join a union is another worker who doesn't pay 500 a year to organized labor's political machine.