Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.
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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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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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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I think I’m the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.
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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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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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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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Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.
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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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The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
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I don’t even like playing a contentious role.
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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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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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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.
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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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