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 DEMINTIf a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
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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.
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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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I don’t even like playing a contentious role.
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The Tea Party doesn’t like politicians.
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American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.
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A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
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NCLB should be called “More Children Left behind”.
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If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
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Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.
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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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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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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.
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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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I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
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I like to be a strategic policy guy.
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