Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
JIM DEMINTAllow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
More Jim DeMint Quotes
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NCLB should be called “More Children Left behind”.
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No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn.
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Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren’t looking at the facts.
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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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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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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 Tea Party doesn’t like politicians.
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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 would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
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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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I think I’m the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.
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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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The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
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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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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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