American - Politician | October 19, 1956 -
I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that you come to Washington thinking it's a cesspool, you don't want to end up thinking it's really a hot tub and getting used to it. So that's something one has to keep an eye on all the time.
Grover Norquist
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When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist.
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This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.
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Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.
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If the Republican Party works with the Hispanic community, the immigrant community, they're natural allies. People who came to this country are more freedom-loving and more American than people who just happened to be born here.
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The question is: How do we reduce spending from 25% of GDP, which is where Obama put us? The focus is on total government spending. Can we bring it down, in a reasonable and politically acceptable way? That's what the Paul Ryan plan does. It puts us on a gradual reform path to reducing the size of government.
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Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country.
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The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.
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A 20-pound weight on the back of a small horse is more damaging than a 20-pound weight on a very big horse.
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The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.
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The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party.
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We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.
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