This is the forum I started with some more information.
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=451113.0As Kays said in her reply to me it is in Display.template.php starting with this:
if ($context['can_reply'] && !empty($options['display_quick_reply']))
{
echo '
<a id="quickreply"></a>
<div class="tborder" id="quickreplybox">
<div class="cat_bar">
<h3 class="catbg">
<span class="ie6_header floatleft"><a href="javascript:oQuickReply.swap();">
<img src="', $settings['images_url'], '/', $options['display_quick_reply'] == 2 ? 'collapse' : 'expand', '.gif" alt="+" id="quickReplyExpand" class="icon" />
</a>
<a href="javascript:oQuickReply.swap();">', $txt['quick_reply'], '</a>
</span>
</h3>
</div>
<div id="quickReplyOptions"', $options['display_quick_reply'] == 2 ? '' : ' style="display: none"', '>
<span class="upperframe"><span></span></span>
<div class="roundframe">What I did since, I hate the permissions box sometimes is I commented out the permissions box as such
<!-- hide permissions box, ugh <div style="width: 200px;">
<div class="cat_bar">
<h3 class="catbg">
<a href="#" onclick="shrinkHeaderPI(!current_header_pi); return false;"><img id="upshrink_pi" src="', $settings['images_url'], '/', empty($options['collapse_header_pi']) ? 'collapse.gif' : 'expand.gif', '" alt="*" title="', $txt['upshrink_description'], '" /></a> ', $txt['permissions_info'], '
</h3>
</div>
<div class="windowbg2" id="upshrinkHeaderPI"', empty($options['collapse_header_pi']) ? '' : ' style="display: none;"', '>
<span class="topslice"><span></span></span>
<div class="content smalltext">
<ul class="reset">
<li>', (allowedTo('post_new')) ? $txt['post_new_topic_permission_yes'] : $txt['post_new_topic_permission_no'], '</li>
<li>', (allowedTo('post_reply_any')) ? $txt['reply_permission_yes'] : $txt['reply_permission_no'], '</li>
<li>', (allowedTo('post_attachment')) ? $txt['attachment_permission_yes'] : $txt['attachment_permission_no'], '</li>
<li>', (allowedTo('modify_own')) ? $txt['modify_permission_yes'] : $txt['modify_permission_no'], '</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<ul class="reset">
<li><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=help;page=post#bbcref">', $txt['bbc'], '</a> ', ($modSettings['enableBBC']) ? $txt['enabled'] : $txt['disabled'], '</li>
<li><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=help;page=post#smileysref">', $txt['smiley'], '</a> ', ($modSettings['enableBBC']) ? $txt['enabled'] : $txt['disabled'], '</li>
<li><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=help;page=post#bbcref">', $txt['img'], '</a> ', (!in_array('img', (empty($modSettings['disabledBBC']) ? array() : explode(',', $modSettings['disabledBBC'])))) ? $txt['enabled'] : $txt['disabled'], '</li>
<li>', $txt['html'], ' ', ($modSettings['enablePostHTML']) ? $txt['enabled'] : $txt['disabled'], '</li>';
if (isset($modSettings['rules_enable_member_access']) || isset($modSettings['rules_enable_guest_access']))
echo'
<li><a href="'.$scripturl.'?action=rules">'.$txt['mods_cat_rules'].'</a></li>';
echo'
</ul>
</div> end hide of permissions box -->
This is above the quick reply box code.
I hope this helps.
Also as Illori said you can make the quick reply box expand all the time in your profile settings, but I don't want to explain to others users how to do this I just want it there all the time by default.