Grover Norquist

“The leave-us-alone coalition is the coalition that is the majority in this country.”

“If you tax something, you get less of it. If you subsidize something, you get more of it.”

“The Democrats are the party of government, and we are the party of the people.”

“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.”

“Bipartisanship is another name for date rape.”

“The modern-day GOP is not your father's Republican Party. It is the party of small-government, low-tax, free-enterprise, constitutional conservatives.”

“The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.”

“The question is not what we are against, but what we are for. We are for a smaller, less intrusive government.”

“All I want to do is make it so that people can keep their own money. I'm not in favor of an authoritarian state. I'm not in favor of a state that is powerful.”

“I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”

“The power to tax is the power to destroy.”

“We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.”

“Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in the program.”

“A government that is big enough to give you everything you want is a government that is big enough to take from you everything you have.”

“The cost of government is the breakfast of champions.”