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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.

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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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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Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.
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Cash-for-Clunkers program was a stupid idea.
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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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Quantitative easing prints money & causes inflation.
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Democrats have chosen not to defend the Marine Corps, but to pander to anti-war protesters and Berkeley officials that are actively trying to impede military recruitment.
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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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I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
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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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Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.
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Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
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Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.
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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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Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.
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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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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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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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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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