Jim DeMint Quotes
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I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.
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I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.
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Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.
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If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
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First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.
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What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.
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American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.
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Ideas are more powerful than people.
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It has always been my plan not to serve more than two terms.
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Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.
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I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.
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The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.
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The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.
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If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
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Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
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I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.
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California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.
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It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.
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So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.
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A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.