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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.

Jim DeMint

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

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

Funding Parenthood Protect
I think I’m the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.
JIM DEMINT

Mirrors President Thinking
The Tea Party doesn’t like politicians.
JIM DEMINT

Party Politician Tea
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
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
I like to be a strategic policy guy.
JIM DEMINT

Guy Policy Strategic
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.
JIM DEMINT

Benefits Long Support
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
If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
JIM DEMINT

Gay School Teaching
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.
JIM DEMINT

Creating Government Rights
Gay marriage considered immoral by all the world’s religions.
JIM DEMINT

Gay Marriage World

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