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 DEMINTThe problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
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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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The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
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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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A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
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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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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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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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I like to be a strategic policy guy.
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If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
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Gay marriage considered immoral by all the world’s religions.
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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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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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Government-run schools can’t instill morals and character.
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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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I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
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