Grover Norquist Quotes

Each year, we learn that customer service diminishes. You may argue it's because the IRS budget has been cut, but I'm going to argue that it's because the IRS chooses to spend its funds in other areas like the Affordable Care Act, bonuses, and conferences.

When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. - they'll find something.

I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.

'Tax Collector' was optioned for a series with F/X, but it never happened. I guess they ran into a problem trying to figure out why someone would tune in to watch a show about a guy who works for the IRS.

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.

The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime!

What about feeling sorry for those who pay the taxes? Those who are people that no one feels sorry for. They are asked to give and give until they have no more to give. And when they say 'enough,' they are called selfish.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised. Obama and the Democrats have a fight with the American people, not with me.

No taxation without respiration.

We're not the bosses of taxpayers; they're ours.

The person to protect is the American taxpayer. We deserve to be protected, not Lockheed.

Does the Internal Revenue Service work for you or do you work for them?

It will be a sad day for the revenues if the good will of the people toward their taxing system is frittered away in efforts to accomplish by taxation moral reforms that cannot be accomplished by direct legislation.

We have a lot of taxpayers in this city who deserve to get every nickel of their tax dollars that they're entitled to from Washington, and I intend to make that happen.

Let's start with protecting taxpayers and making sure we have more fairness in the system.

Obama's IRS is not the IRS I've ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.

A lot of people are happy to give money to charities but are wary of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn't produce any value.

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

Whenever the party-girl tag gets attached to my name, it makes me want to snort with derision.

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national, state and local level for lower taxes, less government spending and limited government.

Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position.