Quotes by Grover Norquist

• Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.
• We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens.
• The statists want to control the economy.
• 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.
• Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.
• Obsessions turn people off.
• 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.