Top 50 Jim DeMint Quotes

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

Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying.

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.

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.

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’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.

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.

First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.

I’m not a kingmaker.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.

The Tea Party doesn’t like politicians.

Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren’t looking at the facts.

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.

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.

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 play the guitar a little bit.

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.

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

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

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.

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

It doesn’t make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.

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.

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

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

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.

Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.

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’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.

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.

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I don’t even like playing a contentious role.

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

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

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

Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.

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.

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

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.

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

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.

Ideas are more powerful than people.

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.