I think I’m the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.
JIM DEMINTMotorists 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
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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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If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
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Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
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American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.
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Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren’t looking at the facts.
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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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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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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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