Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked … - Grover Norquist

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked anyone out. But last year. . . my first opening night at the Met - I looked out and heard all that cheering. . . for me. . . And I loved it.

Grover Norquist

Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.

Facilitating, Government, Happiness, Law, Liberty, People

Same Author Quotes

We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.

Digits, Enough, Hold, Needs, Pen, Thinking

All we have to do is replace Obama. . . . We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. . . . We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don't need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate.

Leader, Modern, Ryan, Tell, Thinking, Years

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.

Abolish, Bathtub, Government, Size, Want

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

Change, Nastiness, Partisanship, Trying, Turn

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.

Cut, Cutting, Government, Half, Years