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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.

— Grover Norquist

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The president was committed; elected on the basis that he was not Romney and Romney was a poopy head."

An armed people are a free people. If our forefathers were not armed before the American Revolution we would all be speaking English today.

Our goal is to inflict pain. It is not good enough to win; it has to be a painful and devastating defeat. We're sending a message here. It is like when the king would take his opponent's head and spike it on a pole for everyone to see.

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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