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
We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.
Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners.
Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government.
My wife and I have what's known as mixed marriage. I am a Methodist, she is a Muslim. So we're keeping it in the M's.
There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.
We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause.
The Republican Party and the conservative free market movement have been presidentially focused for too long.
The taxpayer group in every state is always - always referred to as nuts.
Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged. It's one of those taxes that most clearly damages economic growth and jobs.
Historically, opposition to immigration in the United States has been racially and religiously motivated in the ugliest, nastiest way possible.
If the parties would brand themselves the way Coke and Pepsi and other products do so that you knew what you were buying, it had quality control. I vote for the Republican. He or she will not raise my taxes. I'll buy one. I'll take that one home.
Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.
Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
Smaller government, more individual responsibility, more individual control creates more Republicans. More state power and ownership and control and top-down decision-making creates more Democrats.