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Jim DeMint

A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
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Country Islamic Light People
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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Children Country Government
The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
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Goal Opposites Problem
I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
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Care Devolution Support
As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society’s most vulnerable.
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Government People Reform
Gay marriage considered immoral by all the world’s religions.
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Gay Marriage World
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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Company Country Job Jobs Want
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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Chief Problem Scared
If we’re able to stop Obama on [health care reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him and we will show that we can, along with the American people, begin to push those freedom solutions that work in every area of our society.
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People Political Reform
American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.
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Biblical Understanding Views
Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren’t looking at the facts.
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Country Facts People Republican
No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn.
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Funding Parenthood Protect
Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
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Behind Children Left States
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
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Conflict Freedom Mature Past
I think I’m the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.
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Mirrors President Thinking
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 senators 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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Cutting Jobs Thinking

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