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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

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.
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Children Country Government
The Tea Party doesn’t like politicians.
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Party Politician Tea
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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Demand Fuel Government
The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
JIM DEMINT

Goal Opposites Problem
Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren’t looking at the facts.
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Country Facts People Republican
American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.
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Biblical Understanding Views
A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
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Country Islamic Light People
Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.
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Character Integrity Promise
I like to be a strategic policy guy.
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Guy Policy Strategic
I don’t even like playing a contentious role.
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Contentious Even Play Roles
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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Night Worry Years
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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Environmental Moving Years
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
Government-run schools can’t instill morals and character.
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Character Running School
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
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Conflict Freedom Mature Past
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

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.

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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.

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