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Jim DeMint

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
I don’t even like playing a contentious role.
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Contentious Even Play Roles
The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
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Goal Opposites Problem
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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Government People Reform
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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Chief Problem Scared
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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Cutting Jobs Thinking
The Tea Party doesn’t like politicians.
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Party Politician Tea
Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.
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Character Integrity Promise
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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Company Country Job Jobs 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.
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Conflict Freedom Mature Past
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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Heritage Ideas Want
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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.
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Benefits Long Support
Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.
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Country Dependent Federal Government People
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
Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren’t looking at the facts.
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Country Facts People Republican

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