Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Jim DeMint - Page 2

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Marriage is a religious and state issue.

I have no plans to run for president.

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.

Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.

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.

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

No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn.

NCLB should be called "More Children Left behind".

Government-run schools can't instill morals and character.

Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.

Freedom solutions - cross-state insurers; health cooperatives.

I think I'm the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.

Partner with churches to assist the poor.

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.

Quantitative easing prints money & causes inflation.

Many Democrats are sincere in their desire to help others.

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.

Not federal government's job to do good deeds.

Judeo-Christian conservatism overcomes natural selfishness.

Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.

Spending is an addiction.

Dependency encourages social problems.

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.

Vouchers lead to competition, not re-segregation.

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 senators to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.

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.

Eliminating business taxes makes US best at manufacturing.

Cash-for-Clunkers program was a stupid idea.

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

Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.

Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.

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

American exceptionalism requires understanding biblical view.