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American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.

Jim DeMint

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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Creating Government Rights
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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Company Country Job Jobs Want
Well, 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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Children Country Government
A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
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Country Islamic Light People
I think I’m the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.
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Mirrors President Thinking
Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.
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Country Dependent Federal Government People
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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Environmental Moving Years
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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Chief Problem Scared
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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Country People Want
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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Heritage Ideas Want
NCLB should be called “More Children Left behind”.
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Behind Children
I don’t even like playing a contentious role.
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Contentious Even Play Roles
Government-run schools can’t instill morals and character.
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Character Running School
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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Conflict Freedom Mature Past
The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
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Goal Opposites Problem
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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Government People Reform

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