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On why the Media doesn't know most Americans support
gun rights:
"We don't have annual parades
for gun owners so everyone can appreciate that gun
ownership is an alternative lifestyle and look at how
great we are." (He also insisted that liberals "don't
want you (men) to date girls.")
--NRA Convention
- as described by Steve Freiss on gay.com
On California's Proposition 209, a ballot measure
that eliminated the
state's affirmative action policy:
Affirmative
action is "government racism" that
is "particularly offensive to
Jews and Asian Americans."
--The American Spectator
On the Estate Tax and the Holocaust:
Norquist: “I think it speaks very much to the health
of the nation that
70-plus percent of Americans want to abolish the death
tax, because they see it as fundamentally unjust. The
argument that some who played at the
politics of hate and envy and class division will say,
'Yes, well, that's
only 2 percent,' or as people get richer 5 percent
in the near future of
Americans likely to have to pay that tax. I mean, that's
the morality of
the Holocaust. 'Well, it's only a small percentage,'
you know. 'I mean, it's
not you, it's somebody else.’…”
Terry Gross: “Excuse me. Excuse me one second. Did
you just ... compare the
estate tax with the Holocaust?”
Grover Norquist: “No, the morality that says it's
OK to do something to do a
group because they're a small percentage of the population
is the morality
that says that the Holocaust is OK because they didn't
target everybody,
just a small percentage. What are you worried about?
It's not you. It's not
you. It's them. …”
Terry Gross: "So you see taxes as being the way
they are now terrible
discrimination against the wealthy comparable to the
kind of discrimination
of, say, the Holocaust?"
Grover Norquist: "Well, what you pick -- you
can use different rhetoric or
different points for different purposes, and I would
argue that those who
say, 'Don't let this bother you; I'm only doing it'
-- I, the government.
The government is only doing it to a small percentage
of the population.
That is very wrong. And it's immoral. They should treat
everybody the same.
They shouldn't be shooting anyone, and they shouldn't
be taking half of
anybody's income or wealth when they die.”
--Interview with Terry Gross on National Public Radio
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