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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.

Jim DeMint

The Tea Party doesn’t like politicians.
JIM DEMINT

Party Politician Tea
Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren’t looking at the facts.
JIM DEMINT

Country Facts People Republican
Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
JIM DEMINT

Behind Children Left States
NCLB should be called “More Children Left behind”.
JIM DEMINT

Behind Children
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.
JIM DEMINT

Benefits Long Support
If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
JIM DEMINT

Chief Problem Scared
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
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
A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
JIM DEMINT

Country Islamic Light People
I don’t even like playing a contentious role.
JIM DEMINT

Contentious Even Play Roles
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
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
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
I think I’m the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.
JIM DEMINT

Mirrors President Thinking
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.
JIM DEMINT

Creating Government Rights

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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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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