Jim DeMint famous quotes

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.
-- Jim DeMint

#Mom #Dad #Father

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
-- Jim DeMint

#Scared #Problem #Chiefs

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.
-- Jim DeMint

#America #Mind #Enemy

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.
-- Jim DeMint

#Party #Ideas #Libertarian

Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.
-- Jim DeMint

#Goal #World #Compromise

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.
-- Jim DeMint

#Country #Children #Government

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.
-- Jim DeMint

#Government #Rose #People

I don't think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into a loan at some point. It then encourages people to go back to work.
-- Jim DeMint

#Thinking #People #Needs

I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.
-- Jim DeMint

#Country #Jobs #Regulation

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.
-- Jim DeMint

#Thinking #People #Trying

Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.
-- Jim DeMint

#Government #Want #Regulation

Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.
-- Jim DeMint

#Christian #Country #Strong

California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.
-- Jim DeMint

#California #Cliffs #Trough

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.
-- Jim DeMint

#Government #People #Our Society

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.
-- Jim DeMint

#Common #Republican #Lowest Common Denominator

We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.
-- Jim DeMint

#America #Reform #Needs

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.
-- Jim DeMint

#Long #Support #Lebanon

So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.
-- Jim DeMint

#Jobs #Cutting #Thinking

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.
-- Jim DeMint

#Creating #Rights #Government

I have no plans to run for president.
-- Jim DeMint

#Running #President #Plans

I don't have the support inside Washington or even inside my own party.
-- Jim DeMint

#Party #Support

I don't even like playing a contentious role.
-- Jim DeMint

#Roles #Contentious

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.
-- Jim DeMint

#Military #War #Marine

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.
-- Jim DeMint

#Medicine #Goal #Use

Ideas are more powerful than people.
-- Jim DeMint

#Powerful #Ideas #People

If we're able to stop Obama on [health care reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him and we will show that we can, along with the American people, begin to push those freedom solutions that work in every area of our society.
-- Jim DeMint

#People #Political #Our Society

The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
-- Jim DeMint

#Opposites #Goal #Problem

But my bill, the Drill Now Act, would actually expedite the whole process, let the Interior Department move ahead quicker... it would stop the radical environmental lawyers from delaying for years with frivolous lawsuits the leasing of the property.
-- Jim DeMint

#Moving #Years #Environmental

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.
-- Jim DeMint

#Party #Government #Order

We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.
-- Jim DeMint

#Country #America #Doors

The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.
-- Jim DeMint

#Thinking #Organization #Ideas

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.
-- Jim DeMint

#Block #Men #Civilization

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
-- Jim DeMint

#Past #Conflict #Mature

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.
-- Jim DeMint

#Party #Tea #Politician

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
-- Jim DeMint

#Teaching #School #Gay

I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.
-- Jim DeMint

#Party #Dark #Years

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.
-- Jim DeMint

#Strong #Car #Want

A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
-- Jim DeMint

#Islamic #Light #Iraq

I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.
-- Jim DeMint

#Country #People #Want

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.
-- Jim DeMint

#Order #Make Sense #Right Thing

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.
-- Jim DeMint

#Country #Income #World

Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.
-- Jim DeMint

#Facts #Republican

First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.
-- Jim DeMint

#Wall #Winning #Firsts

Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.
-- Jim DeMint

#Party #People #Tea

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
-- Jim DeMint

#Support #Care #Devolution

I like to be a strategic policy guy.
-- Jim DeMint

#Guy #Policy

I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It's a terrible thing to do.
-- Jim DeMint

#Night #Years #Worry

I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.
-- Jim DeMint

#Home #Museums #Asking For Money

I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.
-- Jim DeMint

#Thinking #Limits #Looks

Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.
-- Jim DeMint

#Data #Firsts #Analysis

From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.
-- Jim DeMint

#Christian #Important #Principles

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.
-- Jim DeMint

#Ideas #Heritage #Want

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.
-- Jim DeMint

#Party #Needs #Libertarian