"The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease."

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Source : "Grover Norquist: 'The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit'". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. March 9, 2011.

Grover Norquist

#Government Quotes #Goal Quotes #Focus Quotes

“If I don't believe it, I don't care.”
“You can always care [about what others think]. You probably always will care. But don't let it dictate your choices and what you want and what you want to accomplish and who you want to be. Don't let anyone get in the way of that. That's being yourself.”
“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”
“We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?”
“Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens to be scrubbing a floor or running a corporation.”
“Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.”
“Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.”
“It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.”

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