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Jim DeMint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 2
Business Executive
Former United States Senator
Politician
Greenville
South Carolina
James Warren Jim DeMint
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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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I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
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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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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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NCLB should be called More Children Left behind.
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We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder.
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Cash-for-Clunkers program was a stupid idea.
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Quantitative easing prints money & causes inflation.
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From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.
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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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American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.
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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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I don't even like playing a contentious role.
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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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Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.
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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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Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.
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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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The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.
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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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