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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.

Jim DeMint

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
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.
JIM DEMINT

Cutting Jobs Thinking
The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
JIM DEMINT

Goal Opposites Problem
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
NCLB should be called “More Children Left behind”.
JIM DEMINT

Behind Children
I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
JIM DEMINT

Care Devolution Support
The Tea Party doesn’t like politicians.
JIM DEMINT

Party Politician Tea
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
Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.
JIM DEMINT

Country Dependent Federal Government People
I don’t even like playing a contentious role.
JIM DEMINT

Contentious Even Play Roles
American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.
JIM DEMINT

Biblical Understanding Views
Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
JIM DEMINT

Behind Children Left States
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
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.
JIM DEMINT

Benefits Long Support
If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
JIM DEMINT

Gay School Teaching
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

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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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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