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.
JIM DEMINTAnyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren’t looking at the facts.
More Jim DeMint Quotes
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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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Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.
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Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
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NCLB should be called “More Children Left behind”.
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I don’t even like playing a contentious role.
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No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn.
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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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The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
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Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren’t looking at the facts.
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But my bill, the Drill Now Act, would actually expedite the whole process, let the Interior Department move ahead quicker… It would stop the radical environmental lawyers from delaying for years with frivolous lawsuits the leasing of the property.
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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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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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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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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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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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