Government-run schools can’t instill morals and character.
JIM DEMINTAnyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren’t looking at the facts.
More Jim DeMint Quotes
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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.
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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 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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The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
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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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I like to be a strategic policy guy.
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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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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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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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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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I think I’m the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.
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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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Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren’t looking at the facts.
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I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
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