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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.

Jim DeMint

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Jim DeMint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 2
Business Executive
Former United States Senator
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Greenville
South Carolina
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Not federal government's job to do good deeds.
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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.
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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.
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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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Gay marriage considered immoral by all the world's religions.
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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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Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.
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Democrats are making it clear that they intend to use our economic crisis to rush through their longtime liberal goals without public scrutiny or debate. ... This will increase burdens on taxpayers and take a significant step toward socialized medicine.
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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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I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
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I don't even like playing a contentious role.
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NCLB should be called More Children Left behind.
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The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.
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