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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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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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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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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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We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.
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NCLB should be called More Children Left behind.
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Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.
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Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.
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I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
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Not federal government's job to do good deeds.
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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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Quantitative easing prints money & causes inflation.
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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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What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.
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American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.
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I don't even like playing a contentious role.
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Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.
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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 Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.
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Cash-for-Clunkers program was a stupid idea.
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