Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
JIM DEMINTAllow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
JIM DEMINTBut 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.
JIM DEMINTFrankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.
JIM DEMINTMotorists 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.
JIM DEMINTI like to be a strategic policy guy.
JIM DEMINTToday 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 DEMINTI don’t even like playing a contentious role.
JIM DEMINTI 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 DEMINTGovernment-run schools can’t instill morals and character.
JIM DEMINTThe Tea Party doesn’t like politicians.
JIM DEMINTIf 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 DEMINTSo, 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 DEMINTI 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.
JIM DEMINTIf a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
JIM DEMINTThe problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
JIM DEMINTWe 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