#govern

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#drown #goal #government #our #shrink

As long as we're focused on spending, there are only two ways to do that: One is spend less, and Democrats have no solutions for that. Or we have pro-growth policies that make the economy grow so the dead-weight cost of government becomes a smaller percentage of the economy and therefore less expensive. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#cost #democrats #economy #expensive #focused

I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#commitments #fight #government #group #groups

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#american #american politics #best #brings #center

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

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. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#deficit #economy #focus #government #government spending

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation? ↗

— Gale Norton

#environment #government #government regulation #heavy-handed #only

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic. ↗

— Michael Novak

#citizen #doing #government #involved #job

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it. ↗

— Jim Nussle

#accountability #actually #certainly #government #know