"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.“
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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."
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"The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue."
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"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."
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"Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith."
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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."
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