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Jim DeMint

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
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
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
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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Country People Want
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
A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
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Country Islamic Light People
Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.
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Country Dependent Federal Government People
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.
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Creating Government Rights
Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.
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Character Integrity Promise
Gay marriage considered immoral by all the world’s religions.
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Gay Marriage World
If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
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Gay School Teaching
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
I don’t even like playing a contentious role.
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Contentious Even Play Roles
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
Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
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Behind Children Left States
I like to be a strategic policy guy.
JIM DEMINT

Guy Policy Strategic
I think I’m the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.
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Mirrors President Thinking
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
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 Tea Party doesn’t like politicians.
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Party Politician Tea
I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
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Care Devolution Support
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
Government-run schools can’t instill morals and character.
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Character Running School
NCLB should be called “More Children Left behind”.
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Behind Children
Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren’t looking at the facts.
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Country Facts People Republican
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
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

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