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.
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.
JIM DEMINTWell, 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 DEMINTGovernment-run schools can’t instill morals and character.
JIM DEMINTA free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
JIM DEMINTIf we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
JIM DEMINTI 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 DEMINTWe know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
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.
JIM DEMINTNCLB should be called “More Children Left behind”.
JIM DEMINTWe 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 DEMINTIf a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
JIM DEMINTIf 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 DEMINTGay marriage considered immoral by all the world’s religions.
JIM DEMINTI like to be a strategic policy guy.
JIM DEMINTToday 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 DEMINTSelect candidates by integrity of character, not promises.
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