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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.

Jim DeMint

I don’t even like playing a contentious role.
JIM DEMINT

Contentious Even Play Roles
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
No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn.
JIM DEMINT

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

Behind Children Left States
Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren’t looking at the facts.
JIM DEMINT

Country Facts People Republican
Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.
JIM DEMINT

Country Dependent Federal Government People
I think I’m the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.
JIM DEMINT

Mirrors President Thinking
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.
JIM DEMINT

Environmental Moving Years
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
A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
JIM DEMINT

Country Islamic Light People
If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
JIM DEMINT

Chief Problem Scared
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
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
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.
JIM DEMINT

Children Country Government

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