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Jim DeMint

We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder.
JIM DEMINT

Benefits Long Support
Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator – life, liberty and freedom.
JIM DEMINT

Creating Government Rights
Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.
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Country Dependent Federal Government People
The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
JIM DEMINT

Goal Opposites Problem
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
JIM DEMINT

Conflict Freedom Mature Past
I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they’re active, informed, and engaged.
JIM DEMINT

Country People Want
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.
JIM DEMINT

Children Country Government
I think I’m the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.
JIM DEMINT

Mirrors President Thinking
Government-run schools can’t instill morals and character.
JIM DEMINT

Character Running School
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.
JIM DEMINT

Environmental Moving Years
I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
JIM DEMINT

Care Devolution Support
I like to be a strategic policy guy.
JIM DEMINT

Guy Policy Strategic
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 DEMINT

Night Worry Years
Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.
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Character Integrity Promise
Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
JIM DEMINT

Behind Children Left States
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.
JIM DEMINT

Cutting Jobs Thinking

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