Grover Norquist Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.”

“What's hurting the U.S. economy is total government spending. The deficit is an indicator that the government is spending so much money that it can't even get around to stealing all of the money that it wants to spend. But the tip of the iceberg is not what hit the Titanic - it was the 90 percent of the iceberg under water.”

“Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy.”

“Historically, opposition to immigration in the United States has been racially and religiously motivated in the ugliest, nastiest way possible.”

“The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.”

“Compromise is moving in the right directlon more slowly than one might like.”

“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.”

“The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party.”

“Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education.”

“A lot of young people just starting out unskilled, as all Americans do when they're 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.”