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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.

Jim DeMint

I don’t even like playing a contentious role.
JIM DEMINT

Contentious Even Play Roles
I think I’m the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.
JIM DEMINT

Mirrors President Thinking
Gay marriage considered immoral by all the world’s religions.
JIM DEMINT

Gay Marriage World
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
JIM DEMINT

Conflict Freedom Mature Past
If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
JIM DEMINT

Chief Problem Scared
I like to be a strategic policy guy.
JIM DEMINT

Guy Policy Strategic
I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
JIM DEMINT

Care Devolution Support
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.
JIM DEMINT

Children Country Government
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.
JIM DEMINT

Heritage Ideas Want
Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.
JIM DEMINT

Character Integrity Promise
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.
JIM DEMINT

Company Country Job Jobs Want
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.
JIM DEMINT

Creating Government Rights
Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren’t looking at the facts.
JIM DEMINT

Country Facts People Republican
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.
JIM DEMINT

Country People Want
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.
JIM DEMINT

People Political Reform
Government-run schools can’t instill morals and character.
JIM DEMINT

Character Running School

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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