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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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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I don't think Obama will get re-elected.
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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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It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.
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Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.
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I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It's a terrible thing to do.
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What we need is some people to stand up with the courage of their convictions, to do what they promised when they ran for election, and fight to stop Obamacare.
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What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.
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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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A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
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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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We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.
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Ideas are more powerful than people.
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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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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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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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I have no plans to run for president.
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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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Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying.
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Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.