Jim DeMint Quotes

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Jim DeMint

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 2, 1951

The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.

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You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

Jim DeMint

The Democrats have essentially decided to move more toward central power, control of just about every aspect of our culture and economy.

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I don't think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into a loan at some point. It then encourages people to go back to work.

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The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.

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

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You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

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California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.

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Something happens to me when someone says, 'You can't.' I'm generally not very competitive; unless someone tells me I can't do something that should be done.

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Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.

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Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.

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If you remember you just have one constituent, and that's God himself, and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life.

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We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.

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

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

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

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Marriage is a religious and state issue.

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

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I have no plans to run for president.

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