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JIM DEMINTFrankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.
More Jim DeMint Quotes
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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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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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Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren’t looking at the facts.
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Government-run schools can’t instill morals and character.
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I like to be a strategic policy guy.
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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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The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
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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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I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
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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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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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Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
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Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.
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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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