Grover Norquist Quotes

We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

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.

Obsessions turn people off.

We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways.

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.

Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.

The future of the Republican Party, all the different folks looking to lead the Republican Party at the national level in the future, recognize we should do immigration reform.

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.

The statists want to control the economy.

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.

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.

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

When I became 21, I decided that nobody learned anything about politics after the age of 21.

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts, using this tragedy and those deaths for his own political desires.

The Democratic Party might be called the Takings Coalition, made up of groups that want the government to take from American citizens -- usually cash -- and keep it for itself.

They tax when you earn a dollar, they tax you when you save it, they tax you when you invest it. If you earn a dividend, they tax it again, and if you're stupid enough to die, they steal up to half.

Could I ask if there’s anything in between Step One and Step Two? ‘Oh ye of little faith.’

Taxes are the killing fields of Democrats.

There are a number of people who won't be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them.

Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this?

It's the Democrats whose position is that the only problem in Washington, D.C., is the peasants aren't sending enough cash in for the king to spend.

We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.

No Republican could expect to win the GOP nod after betraying his party's rank and file.

Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.

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

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.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

My wife and I have what's known as mixed marriage. I am a Methodist, she is a Muslim. So we're keeping it in the M's.