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
competition segregation vouchers
Vouchers lead to competition, not re-segregation.
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.
party tea politician
The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.
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.
order make-sense wrong-things
It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.
night years worry
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.
long support benefits
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.
california cliffs trough
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.
party people tea
Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.
parenthood funding protect
No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn.
details due exact fact released security trip until
While the exact details of the trip are not released until after the fact due to security concerns,
china hard opening worked
We're opening up their market. I worked hard to put China into the WTO rule-based system.