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Jim DeMint

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

Character Running School
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.
JIM DEMINT

Night Worry Years
NCLB should be called “More Children Left behind”.
JIM DEMINT

Behind Children
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 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
Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.
JIM DEMINT

Demand Fuel Government
The Tea Party doesn’t like politicians.
JIM DEMINT

Party Politician Tea
If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
JIM DEMINT

Gay School Teaching
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
But my bill, the Drill Now Act, would actually expedite the whole process, let the Interior Department move ahead quicker… It would stop the radical environmental lawyers from delaying for years with frivolous lawsuits the leasing of the property.
JIM DEMINT

Environmental Moving Years
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
Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.
JIM DEMINT

Character Integrity Promise
A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
JIM DEMINT

Country Islamic Light People
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

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