Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
JIM DEMINTAnyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren’t looking at the facts.
More Jim DeMint Quotes
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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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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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NCLB should be called “More Children Left behind”.
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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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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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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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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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I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
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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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The Tea Party doesn’t like politicians.
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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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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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I like to be a strategic policy guy.
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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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