The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
JIM DEMINTAllow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
More Jim DeMint Quotes
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NCLB should be called “More Children Left behind”.
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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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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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The Tea Party doesn’t like politicians.
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Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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I think I’m the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.
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Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.
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Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
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