Journalist William Greider quotes Norquist saying his goal is to bring America back to what it was "up until Teddy Roosevelt, when the socialists took over. The income tax, the death tax, regulation, all that." He has endorsed a non-interventionist foreign policy and cuts to the U.S. military budget.

Personal life

Norquist has described himself as a "boring white bread Methodist." Humorist P. J. O'Rourke has described Norquist as "Tom Paine crossed with Lee Atwater plus just a soupçon of Madame Defarge".

Writings

  • Rock the House. Ft. Lauderdale, Fla: VYTIS Press, 1995.
  • Taxes: The Economic & Philosophical Necessity of Real Reform. Minneapolis, MN: Center of the American Experiment, 1996.
  • "America is freedom" chapter from Deaver, Michael K. Why I Am a Reagan Conservative, Chapter New York: W. Morrow, 2005.
  • Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives. New York, NY: W. Morrow, 2008.
  • Debacle: Obama's War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.

See also

  • Democratic International
  • K Street Project
  • Starve the beast

References

  • Official biography from Americans for Tax Reform
  • Column archive at The Guardian
  • A Lesson in Conservative Optimism, The Weekend Interview by Stephen Moore, The Wall Street Journal, November 23, 2012