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
Why are people feeling better? Because they have real increases in wealth.
It's the ultimate goal of what we're trying to do. We want constitutional limits on the size of government.
It's like an alcoholic not drinking for a day. No one trusts that this is something he is going to stick with.
The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.
There is a test of Republicans on this. The country will let you get away with this in the wake of 9/11, but that doesn't make it right.
The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.
Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy.
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.
Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms.
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.
Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.
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.