Every Time You Cut Programs, You Take Away A Person Who Has A Vested Interest In High Taxes And You Put Him On The Tax Rolls And Make Him A Taxpayer. A Farmer On Subsidies Is Part Welfare Bum, Whereas A Free-market Farmer Is A Small Businessman With A Gun.

Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.

Grover Norquist

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Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.

Grover Norquist

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