Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
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More Jim DeMint Quotes
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Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.
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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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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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Government-run schools can’t instill morals and character.
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Gay marriage considered immoral by all the world’s religions.
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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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Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.
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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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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.
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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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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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No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn.
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The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
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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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American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.
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