Quotes By Jim DeMint

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.

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'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.

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

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

Ideas are more powerful than people.

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

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 need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.

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

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.

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.

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I like to be a strategic policy guy.