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Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.

Jim DeMint

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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Chief Problem Scared
I like to be a strategic policy guy.
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Guy Policy Strategic
Government-run schools can’t instill morals and character.
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Character Running School
The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
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Goal Opposites Problem
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.
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Benefits Long 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.
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Children Country Government
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.
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Government People Reform
Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
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Behind Children Left States
Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren’t looking at the facts.
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Country Facts People Republican
I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
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Care Devolution Support
I think I’m the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.
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Mirrors President Thinking
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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Creating Government Rights
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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Heritage Ideas Want
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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Conflict Freedom Mature Past
I don’t even like playing a contentious role.
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Contentious Even Play Roles
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.
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Demand Fuel Government

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