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 DEMINTWell, 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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Government-run schools can’t instill morals and character.
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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 would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
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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 think I’m the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.
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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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Gay marriage considered immoral by all the world’s religions.
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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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Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.
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No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn.
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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.
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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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The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
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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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