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You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Accuse
Convict
Republicans
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I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Home
Museums
Needs
Projects
Local
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If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Secure
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I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Government
Debt
Government Spending
People
Rose
Spending
Believed
Mounting
The Only Thing
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We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
America
Class
Country
Other Countries
Permanent
Revolving
Countries
Door
Millionaires
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The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Heritage
Ideas
Organization
Thinking
Premier
Tank
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Economy
Today
Unions
Antiquated
Appear
Concept
Well
Rid
Saying
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Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Analysis
Data
Dedicated
Heritage
Impeccable
Institute
Policy
Research
Foremost
Remain
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I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Debt
Looks
Polls
Thinking
Debt Limit
Democrats
Republicans
Independents
Limit
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American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Country
Income
Pay
American Businesses
Businesses
Incomes
Portion
Upper
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Dad
Father's Day
Mom
Fathers Day
Mom And Dad
Parent
Titles
World
Greatest
Biggest
Blessings
Call
Parents
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The Democrats have essentially decided to move more toward central power, control of just about every aspect of our culture and economy.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Aspect
Central
Democrats
Essentially
Toward
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We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Conflict
Decades
Democratic
Mature
Past
Conflicts
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Heritage
Ideas
Want
Democrats
Frankly
Independents
Partisan
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Businessman
Night
Worry
Years
Nights
Countless
Stayed
Terrible Thing
Worrying
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Car
Driven
Manufacturing
Strong
Want
Life Car My Life
All My Life
Automobiles
Sector
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Dark
Fed Up
Frustrated
Party
Years
Disastrous
Fed
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Assistance
Benefits
Brutal
Clear
Harbors
Lebanon
Long
Support
Terrorist
Benefit
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Active
Country
Engaged
People
Want
Change People Know
Direction
Informed
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Government
Government Programs
Harder
People
Reform
Rely
Society Government People
Conduct
Programs
Reforms
More People
Preserve
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Competitive
Generally
Says
Unless
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Government
Demand
Fuel
Gas
Buy
Fuel-Efficient
Limit
Regulations
Save
Vehicles
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
California
Cliffs
Trough
Bailout
Cliff
Washington
Economically
Fiscally
Wanting
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Election
Obamacare
Ran
Convictions
Courage Fight People
Promised
Stand Up
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Blessed
Positive Work Good
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Jobs
Carolina
Country
Regulation
South Carolina
Want
Floors
Shop
Talked
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Balance
Budget
Candidate
Litmus
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Optimistic
Return
Great Country People
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Government
Democratic
Democratic Party
Government Spending
Increase
Order
Party
Spending
Actual
Political Party
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
War
Marine
Military
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Pace
Please
Life God Peace
Constituent
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Courage
Candidates
Character
Principles
World
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Accused
People
Social Security
Thinking
Trying
Myself People Know
Destroy
Developed
Proposals
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Loan
People
Thinking
Unemployment
Turning
Encourages
Work People Back
Extend
Further
Making
Paying
Point
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I'm humbled to follow in the footsteps of Ed Feulner, who built the most important conservative institution in the nation. He has been a friend and mentor for years and I am honored to carry on his legacy of fighting for freedom.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Conservative
Footsteps
Honored
Legacy
Humbled
Institution
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Government
Celebration
Creating
Creator
Liberty
Rights
Life Future Hope
Endowed
Iraqi
Iraqi People
Protects
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Marriage
Men
Block
Building
Civilization
Dawn
Foundation
No Point
Severe
Traditional
Traditional Marriage
Time History Man
Attack
Building Block
Union
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
People
Political
Reform
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The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Change
Freedom
America
Enemy
Hope And Change
Mind
Socialist
Tyranny
Nothing
Had
Been
Centuries
Democrats
Failed
Towards
Over
Policies
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Environmental
Moving
Years
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Goal
Medicine
Use
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Jobs
Cutting
Thinking
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Congressman
National Interests
Parking
Spending
Senator
Washington
Interests
Local
Pave
Plants
Sewer
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Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Charity
Christian
Commitment
Country
Exceptional
Important Things
Individualism
Personal Responsibility
Strong
Work Ethic
Ethic
Reminded
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Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Government
Independence
Children
China
Country
Credit
Dependent
Eastern
Food Stamps
Health Care
Income
Middle
Stamps
Supplies
Education Health Food
Education Health Government
Countries
Middle Eastern
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Helping
Showcase
Believe Better Will
Better Job
Believe I Believe Better
Federal Level
Policies
State Level
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Conservative
Fool
Going Home
Sick
Tired
Voting
Reporting
Sick And Tired
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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.
Jim Demint / Former United States Senator
Concerned
Confused
Country
Debt
Limited Government
Party
Spending
Tea
Tea Party
Government Together People
Government Together Country
Broad
Constitutional
Cross-Section
Group
Limited
Thousands
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