Quote by Grover Norquist
Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it

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

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Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone. – Grover Norquist

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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. – Grover Norquist

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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. – Grover Norquist

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I promised to empower the taxpayer – instead of a handful of big government union bosses. – Scott Walker

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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government. – Cal Thomas

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In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate. – John Podhoretz

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