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 DEMINTGovernment-run schools can’t instill morals and character.
More Jim DeMint Quotes
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Gay marriage considered immoral by all the world’s religions.
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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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American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.
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No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn.
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Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
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Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren’t looking at the facts.
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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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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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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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The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
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A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
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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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NCLB should be called “More Children Left behind”.
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