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

Jim DeMint

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Jim DeMint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 2
Business Executive
Former United States Senator
Politician
Greenville
South Carolina
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We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
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Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.
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I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
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I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional, limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country.
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No funding for Planned Parenthood protect the unborn.
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Vouchers lead to competition, not re-segregation.
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The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.
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First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.
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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.
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Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
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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.
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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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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.
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Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.
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Not federal government's job to do good deeds.
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