Jim DeMint

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

— Jim DeMint

Dependency encourages social problems.

— Jim DeMint

I have no plans to run for president.

— Jim DeMint

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

— Jim DeMint

Ideas are more powerful than people.

— Jim DeMint

I play the guitar a little bit.

— Jim DeMint

I'm not a kingmaker.

— Jim DeMint

Spending is an addiction.

— Jim DeMint

I don't even like playing a contentious role.

— Jim DeMint

Eliminating business taxes makes US best at manufacturing.

— Jim DeMint

Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.

— Jim DeMint

Gay marriage considered immoral by all the world's religions.

— Jim DeMint

American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.

— Jim DeMint

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.

— Jim DeMint

Quantitative easing prints money & causes inflation.

— Jim DeMint

Cash-for-Clunkers program was a stupid idea.

— Jim DeMint

Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying.

— Jim DeMint

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.

— Jim DeMint

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.

— Jim DeMint

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

— Jim DeMint

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the…

— Jim DeMint

I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go.…

— Jim DeMint

Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with…

— Jim DeMint

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.

— Jim DeMint

But my bill, the Drill Now Act, would actually expedite the whole process, let the Interior Department move ahead quicker... it would…

— Jim DeMint

I don't have many litmus tests, but this is one: Any candidate who doesn't understand that we need to balance the budget…

— Jim DeMint

We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as…

— Jim DeMint

The message is pretty clear: Americans are sick and tired of the doubletalk coming out of Washington, of us going home and…

— Jim DeMint

If we're able to stop Obama on [health care reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him and we will…

— Jim DeMint

Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of…

— Jim DeMint

Democrats are making it clear that they intend to use our economic crisis to rush through their longtime liberal goals without public…

— Jim DeMint

Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern…

— Jim DeMint

I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came…

— Jim DeMint

NCLB should be called "More Children Left behind".

— Jim DeMint

Not federal government's job to do good deeds.

— Jim DeMint

Government-run schools can't instill morals and character.

— Jim DeMint

I don't think Obama will get re-elected.

— Jim DeMint

Freedom solutions - cross-state insurers; health cooperatives.

— Jim DeMint

Many Democrats are sincere in their desire to help others.

— Jim DeMint

I don't have the support inside Washington or even inside my own party.

— Jim DeMint