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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.

Jim DeMint

Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
JIM DEMINT

Behind Children Left States
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.
JIM DEMINT

Night Worry Years
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
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
Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.
JIM DEMINT

Country Dependent Federal Government People
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
I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
JIM DEMINT

Care Devolution Support
The Tea Party doesn’t like politicians.
JIM DEMINT

Party Politician Tea
A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
JIM DEMINT

Country Islamic Light People
No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn.
JIM DEMINT

Funding Parenthood Protect
Gay marriage considered immoral by all the world’s religions.
JIM DEMINT

Gay Marriage World
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

Cutting Jobs Thinking
NCLB should be called “More Children Left behind”.
JIM DEMINT

Behind Children
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
Government-run schools can’t instill morals and character.
JIM DEMINT

Character Running School
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

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