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 DEMINTSo, 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.
More Jim DeMint Quotes
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Government-run schools can’t instill morals and character.
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NCLB should be called “More Children Left behind”.
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I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
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I like to be a strategic policy guy.
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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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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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Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.
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If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
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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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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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The Tea Party doesn’t like politicians.
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I don’t even like playing a contentious role.
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No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn.
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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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