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 DEMINTIf a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
More Jim DeMint Quotes
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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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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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The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
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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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Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.
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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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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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Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
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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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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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No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn.
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Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren’t looking at the facts.
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Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.
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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.
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American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.
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