Jim DeMint Quotes

Religion and politics are inseparable because the values of our faith should inform what we value in our politics. They both seek to answer questions about the good life.

Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.

If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business.

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

Gay marriage considered immoral by all the world's religions.

It has always been my plan not to serve more than two terms.

Eliminating business taxes makes US best at manufacturing.

No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn.

I'm never going to rule anything out in life, because most of what I'm doing now, I never intended to do.

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

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.

The Democrats have essentially decided to move more toward central power, control of just about every aspect of our culture and economy.

I don't even like playing a contentious role.

Spending is an addiction.

I'm getting optimistic. I think, as I talk to people around the country - they seem to get it. They want a return to those things that made America different and great.

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.

What we need is some people to stand up with the courage of their convictions, to do what they promised when they ran for election, and fight to stop Obamacare.

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.

A-PLUS Act - allow states to operate like charter schools.

If you remember you just have one constituent, and that's God himself, and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life.

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

The message is pretty clear: Americans are sick and tired of the doubletalk coming out of Washington, of us going home and saying we're conservative and then coming up here and voting for 10,000 earmarks. We can't fool America anymore; the media is too good. They're reporting what we're really doing.

Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Many Democrats are sincere in their desire to help others.

I'm humbled to follow in the footsteps of Ed Feulner, who built the most important conservative institution in the nation. He has been a friend and mentor for years and I am honored to carry on his legacy of fighting for freedom.

I'm a conservative first, and I believe that, if we do a better job of helping Americans understand what we're trying to do, to showcase every place in the country that our ideas are working at the state level, that that will help those at the federal level who want to carry those policies.

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

Ideas are more powerful than people.

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

Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.

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.

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.

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.

Something happens to me when someone says, 'You can't.' I'm generally not very competitive; unless someone tells me I can't do something that should be done.

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

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

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

I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.

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

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

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.

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

Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.

Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.

I don't think Obama will get re-elected.

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.

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

I'm not a kingmaker.

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

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.

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

Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying.

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

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

NCLB should be called "More Children Left behind".

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.

I play the guitar a little bit.

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.

Vouchers lead to competition, not re-segregation.

I don't have many litmus tests, but this is one: Any candidate who doesn't understand that we need to balance the budget should not be president of the United States.