Quotes By Jim DeMint

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 have no plans to run for president.

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

We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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'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 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.

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.