Government-run schools can’t instill morals and character.
JIM DEMINTIf we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
More 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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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.
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Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.
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A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
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American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.
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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.
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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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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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I think I’m the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.
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I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
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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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If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
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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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I like to be a strategic policy guy.
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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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