Grover Norquist; the author of the best-selling Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives; has been described by Newt Gingrich -- with whom he wrote 1994 Contract With America -- as "“the person who I regard as the most innovative, creative, courageous and entrepreneurial leader of the anti-tax efforts and of conservative grassroots activism in America". He is the president of the taxpayer advocacy group Americans for Tax Reform, serves on the board of directors for both the American Conservative Union and the National Rifle Association and is a monthly columnist for The American Spectator. In 2007 GQ magazine voted Norquist as one of the fifty most powerful people in Washington, D.C.
