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Jim DeMint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 2
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Former United States Senator
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Greenville
South Carolina
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NCLB should be called More Children Left behind.
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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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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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Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.
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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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The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.
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Quantitative easing prints money & causes inflation.
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What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.
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A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
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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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I don't even like playing a contentious role.
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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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Not federal government's job to do good deeds.
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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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Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.
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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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No funding for Planned Parenthood protect the unborn.
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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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Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
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