Grover Norquist
Grover Norquist
Grover Glenn Norquistis 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 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 October 1956
CountryUnited States of America
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.
My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. Because that person doesn't need the goddamn government for anything,
Could I ask if there’s anything in between Step One and Step Two? ‘Oh ye of little faith.’
No Republican could expect to win the GOP nod after betraying his party's rank and file.
We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.
The statists want to control the economy.
Taxes are the killing fields of Democrats.
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.
There are a number of people who won't be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them.
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.
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.
Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.
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.
Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position.