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NCLB should be called More Children Left behind.

Jim DeMint

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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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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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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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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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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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From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.
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A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
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Eliminating business taxes makes US best at manufacturing.
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Vouchers lead to competition, not re-segregation.
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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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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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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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Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.
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American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.
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Quantitative easing prints money & causes inflation.
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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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First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.
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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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Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.
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Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
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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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