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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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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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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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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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Vouchers lead to competition, not re-segregation.
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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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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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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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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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A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
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NCLB should be called More Children Left behind.
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Quantitative easing prints money & causes inflation.
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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 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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Marriage is a religious and state issue.
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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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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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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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The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.
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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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