I don’t even like playing a contentious role.
JIM DEMINTGovernment-run schools can’t instill morals and character.
More Jim DeMint Quotes
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American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.
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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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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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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 think I’m the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.
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Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
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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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No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn.
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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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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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A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
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Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.
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I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
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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 we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
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