Grover Norquist Quotes

If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.

Taxes are forever; spending cuts are transitory.

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.

What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue.

Cutting spending is harder than raising taxes. Every dollar of federal spending has a constituency.

Voters want conflicting things. They want a lot of government spending, but they don't want higher taxes.

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting budgets and, and trying to get a grip on the size of government.

Government is just spending too much money.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government.

While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

My biggest objection to raising taxes is that it feeds the government addiction to spending money.

... with a cash machine like an income tax, the state legislature will go wild and go on a spending spree.

I've made a commitment that any tax increase, I'm going to veto. It's the worst thing we could do. We have an amount of money to spend. That's it.

People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.

We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.

We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes.

People question me all the time about my experience. They question my experience in politics, and the first thing I always tell them is yes, I have no experience raising taxes over and over. I have no experience increasing the debt in a state.

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.