Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
James Warren "Jim" DeMintis an American politician who was a United States Senator from South Carolina from 2005 to 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party and a leading figure in the Tea Party movement. He previously served as the United States Representative for South Carolina's 4th congressional district from 1999 to 2005. DeMint resigned from the Senate on January 1, 2013, to become president of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 September 1951
children states left-behind
Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.
running school character
Government-run schools can't instill morals and character.
school plus states
A-PLUS Act - allow states to operate like charter schools.
party tea politician
The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.
past conflict mature
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
block men civilization
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.
government rose people
I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.
country pay income
American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.
facts republican has-beens
Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.
wall winning firsts
First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.
ideas want heritage
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.
teaching school gay
If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
party dark years
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.
strong car want
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.