black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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.
JIM DEMINT

People Political Reform
The Tea Party doesn’t like politicians.
JIM DEMINT

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

Character Running School
No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn.
JIM DEMINT

Funding Parenthood Protect
I don’t even like playing a contentious role.
JIM DEMINT

Contentious Even Play Roles
I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
JIM DEMINT

Care Devolution Support
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
I like to be a strategic policy guy.
JIM DEMINT

Guy Policy Strategic
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
Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
JIM DEMINT

Behind Children Left States
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
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
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.
JIM DEMINT

Heritage Ideas Want
If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
JIM DEMINT

Gay School Teaching
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 DEMINT

Government People Reform
I think I’m the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.
JIM DEMINT

Mirrors President Thinking

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jim DeMint Quotes