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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.

Jim DeMint

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

Night Worry Years
The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
JIM DEMINT

Goal Opposites Problem
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
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 would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
JIM DEMINT

Care Devolution Support
I don’t even like playing a contentious role.
JIM DEMINT

Contentious Even Play Roles
If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
JIM DEMINT

Gay School Teaching
Government-run schools can’t instill morals and character.
JIM DEMINT

Character Running School
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
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.
JIM DEMINT

Cutting Jobs Thinking
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
Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.
JIM DEMINT

Country Dependent Federal Government People
A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
JIM DEMINT

Country Islamic Light People
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.
JIM DEMINT

Country People Want
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
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
JIM DEMINT

Conflict Freedom Mature Past

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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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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