American - Politician | October 19, 1956 -
The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.
Grover Norquist
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Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.
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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.
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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.
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Obsessions turn people off.
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Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.
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The statists want to control the economy.
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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.
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My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit.
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We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.
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I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries.
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Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners.
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