The Tea Party doesn’t like politicians.
JIM DEMINTAs 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.
More Jim DeMint Quotes
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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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I like to be a strategic policy guy.
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Gay marriage considered immoral by all the world’s religions.
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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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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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I don’t even like playing a contentious role.
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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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The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
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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.
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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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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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Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.
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No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn.
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Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.
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Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren’t looking at the facts.
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