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
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I don't have the support inside Washington or even inside my own party.
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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.
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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.
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The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.
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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.
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The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.
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Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.
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I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.
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I'm excited about defending and supporting this nominee, and am convinced he will be a great addition to the Supreme Court.
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Small and quite complicated, and that's exactly what we're trying to get away from,
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We have a Category Five fiscal disaster with Social Security and Medicare and just like Katrina, it's predicted, it's inevitable, and in the case of these man-made disasters, we even know the date.
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This Congress cannot feed that hope, and I'm afraid that's what that amendment was doing.
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appear to be the brainchild of a group that is afraid to tackle the real problems in the tax code.
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Meeting with tomorrow's leaders of Iraq was both an honor and an incredible experience, ... These are the guys that will be leading and making the decisions that will affect the future success of an Iraqi democracy.