Grover Norquist Quotes

What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education.

Sometimes Republicans want to cut the social welfare programs and yet they ask for billions and billions more for the Defense Department. I don’t take that approach.

If you refuse to acknowledge that there is any waste that can be culled from the military budget, you are a big-government conservative, and you cannot lay claim to balancing the budget.

I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I have heard, than twice as much as the entire public school system costs the nation.

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities.

I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely.

I have long believed there is a lot of waste in the defense budget.

There is a legitimate role for development education in the UK, but I do not believe these projects give the taxpayer value for money.

I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.

Well, no American wants to in any way hurt our capabilities to national defense, but that doesn't mean an unlimited amount of money, and a blank check for anything they want at any time, for any purpose. Not at all.

Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.

George W. Bush is a big spender…. When Congress sends up a bill with big. fat, crackling pork, he says, “Where’s the barbecue sauce?”

The Pentagon has a long tradition of dialing up the threat to get more dollars at budget time.

The problems of public schools will not be solved by cutting off the source of their funding, which is what vouchers are.

The only way to make budget cuts is to bring down force structure.

We can always find money for what the military wants.

The Republicans can't say no to military spending, and the Democrats can't say no to social spending.

What chiefly governs the military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.

The Pentagon is the Poster Child for waste in Government.