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 DEMINTMotorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.
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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Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.
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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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Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
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I don’t even like playing a contentious role.
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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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Government-run schools can’t instill morals and character.
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A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
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The Tea Party doesn’t like politicians.
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American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.
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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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I like to be a strategic policy guy.
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Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.
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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.
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