Quotes By Jim DeMint

Ideas are more powerful than people.

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

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

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.

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

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

I don't even like playing a contentious role.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

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

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

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.

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.