Jim DeMint Quotes

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Jim DeMint

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 2, 1951

I'm never going to rule anything out in life, because most of what I'm doing now, I never intended to do.

Jim DeMint

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

Jim DeMint

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.

Jim DeMint

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

Jim DeMint

I'm humbled to follow in the footsteps of Ed Feulner, who built the most important conservative institution in the nation. He has been a friend and mentor for years and I am honored to carry on his legacy of fighting for freedom.

Jim DeMint

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

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Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.

Jim DeMint

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.

Jim DeMint

The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.

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I'm a conservative first, and I believe that, if we do a better job of helping Americans understand what we're trying to do, to showcase every place in the country that our ideas are working at the state level, that that will help those at the federal level who want to carry those policies.

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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.

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The message is pretty clear: Americans are sick and tired of the doubletalk coming out of Washington, of us going home and saying we're conservative and then coming up here and voting for 10,000 earmarks. We can't fool America anymore; the media is too good. They're reporting what we're really doing.

Jim DeMint

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

Jim DeMint