“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,” says Grover Norquist: ‘Field Marshal’ of the Bush Plan .

‘Stocky, bearded and owlish, Norquist, 45, is a thumb-in-the-eye radical rightist whose tactical sophistication and singularity of purpose has led observers
to compare him, with some drollery, to Lenin. A Harvard-educated intellectual and self-conscious student of the left, over the past decade Norquist has
eclipsed such older stalwarts as Ed Feulner of the Heritage Foundation, David Keene of the American Conservative Union and Paul Weyrich of the Free
Congress Foundation to emerge as the managing director of the hard-core right in Washington. But while firmly planted on the extreme end of the
political spectrum, Norquist has also built a solid working alliance with the Fortune 500 corporate elite and its K Street lobbyists. “What he’s managed to
do is to chain the ideological conservatives together with the business guys, who have money, and to put that money to work in the service of the
conservative movement,” says Roger Hickey of the Campaign for America’s Future, who’s repeatedly clashed with Norquist. “And he picks big issues.”
Besides taxes, Norquist is also the go-to guy on virtually all of the right’s favorite agenda items, from privatization of Social Security and Medicare to
school vouchers and deregulation.’ The Nation