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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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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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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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Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.
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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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Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
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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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Marriage is a religious and state issue.
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No funding for Planned Parenthood protect the unborn.
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One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
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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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NCLB should be called More Children Left behind.
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Cash-for-Clunkers program was a stupid idea.
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Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.
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Gay marriage considered immoral by all the world's religions.
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