Jim DeMint Quotes

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

NCLB should be called "More Children Left behind".

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.

I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.

Marriage is a religious and state issue.

Quantitative easing prints money & causes inflation.

Cash-for-Clunkers program was a stupid idea.

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

I've developed a lot of reform proposals myself and been accused of trying to destroy Social Security, when the whole point was to try to save it. I think most people know that Social Security is bankrupt.

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.

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

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.

Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.

I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.

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 the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.

Not federal government's job to do good deeds.

Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.

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 recruitment.

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

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.

Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.

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

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.

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

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.

Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.

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.

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