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I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that you come to Washington thinking it's a cesspool, you don't want to end up thinking it's really a hot tub and getting used to it. So that's something one has to keep an eye on all the time. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#cesspool #check #come #deal #each

When I watch TV, I'm embarrassed by some of what's on. ↗

— Tim Conway

#i #some #tv #watch

The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about. ↗

— Edward Norton

#convey #field #help #need #people

If the Republican Party works with the Hispanic community, the immigrant community, they're natural allies. People who came to this country are more freedom-loving and more American than people who just happened to be born here. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#american #born #came #community #country

Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#been #before #budget #ceiling #civil

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#country #detached #guy #obama #party

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. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#american people #american taxpayers #democrats #fight #force

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#code #complicated #easier #important #important thing

The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#defense #free #freedoms #go #government

The question is: How do we reduce spending from 25% of GDP, which is where Obama put us? The focus is on total government spending. Can we bring it down, in a reasonable and politically acceptable way? That's what the Paul Ryan plan does. It puts us on a gradual reform path to reducing the size of government. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#bring #does #down #focus #gdp