Quotes by Grover Norquist

“We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There are a number of people who wont be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them.”

“There was a chance for us to get damn close to [a filibuster-proof] 60 votes. We gave away three sure things.”

“No Republican could expect to win the GOP nod after betraying his partys rank and file.”

“Republicans shouldnt 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.”

“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. Thats what we cannot do with Hispanics.”

“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.”

“A vote in the state legislature to allow a local government to impose a higher tax is not opposing tax increases. This isnt higher-level math.”

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.

A lot of young people just starting out unskilled, as all Americans do when theyre born here, come to this country, and so the business community is for immigration. Big businesses, small businesses, high-tech, low-tech, the communities of faith, and the Republican leadership.

My wife and I have whats known as mixed marriage. I am a Methodist, she is a Muslim. So were keeping it in the Ms.

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.

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

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.

The job of the government isnt to go around and try and make people sacrifice, its to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms.

Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didnt have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy.