Quotes By Jim DeMint

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

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

I don't even like playing a contentious role.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

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

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.

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

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 play the guitar a little bit.

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

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

The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

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.

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.

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