Grover Glenn Norquist is president of anti-tax lobbying group Americans for Tax Reform.
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“an act of utter betrayal.”
Grover Norquist
“We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There are a number of people who won't be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them.”
“There was a chance for us to get damn close to [a filibuster-proof] 60 votes. We gave away three sure things.”
“No Republican could expect to win the GOP nod after betraying his party's rank and file.”
“Republicans shouldn't be on the wrong side of this issue. It is sound economics, it is sound policy and it is good politics. I think it would be helpful if the president was more forceful.”
“If you are perceived as hostile to the immigrant community, you will not only lose their vote for this generation but for the next four generations. That's what we cannot do with Hispanics.”
“Some people say Kleenex when they mean tissue. We will jealously guard the real phrasing the way Kleenex and Coca-Cola do. We will sue anyone who says it wrong and make lots of money.”