Jim DeMint Quotes

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• 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…
• The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
• 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…
• Ideas are more powerful than people.
• Democrats are making it clear that they intend to use our economic crisis to rush through their longtime liberal goals without public scrutiny or debate.…
• Democrats have chosen not to defend the Marine Corps, but to pander to anti-war protesters and Berkeley officials that are actively trying to impede military…
• I don't even like playing a contentious role.
• I don't have the support inside Washington or even inside my own party.
• I have no plans to run for president.
• One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call…
• The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been…
• Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.
• 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…
• I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.
• If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
• The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.
• It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.
• I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.
• 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…
• A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.

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