Grover Norquist
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"Grover Glenn Norquist" is an American political advocate who is founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, an organization that opposes all tax increases and a co-founder of the Islamic Free Market Institute. A libertarian-leaning Republican Party (United States)/Republican, he is the primary promoter of the "Taxpayer Protection Pledge," a pledge signed by lawmakers who agree to oppose increases in marginal income tax rates for individuals and businesses, as well as net reductions or eliminations of deductions and credits without a matching reduced tax rate. Prior to the November 2012 election, the pledge was signed by 95% of all Republican members of Congress and all but one of the candidates running for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

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

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.

A vote in the state legislature to allow a local government to impose a higher tax is not opposing tax increases. This isn't higher-level math.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

There was a chance for us to get damn close to [a filibuster-proof] 60 votes. We gave away three sure things.