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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appear to be the brainchild of a group that is afraid to tackle the real problems in the tax code.
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The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
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Dependency encourages social problems.
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If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
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I anticipated many of these problems because the federal government cannot manage health care; it's too complex and too personal to deliver real results. Yet, even though I voted against it, I am going to do everything I can to make sure it works for our seniors.
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I think Gov. Sanford has it exactly right.
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I think the technology pretty much exists, we just need to align it with existing government warning systems,
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I'm here being part of the team and associating myself with anyone who will have me,
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While the exact details of the trip are not released until after the fact due to security concerns,
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I think my coattails will help the president a little bit, ... South Carolina is Bush country.
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We're opening up their market. I worked hard to put China into the WTO rule-based system.
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He has a solid reputation and is known throughout South Carolina as a fair and honest man. His experience ... will give him a broad perspective and serve him well in his new position.
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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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pep rally, ... a way to synthesize our issues on a national stage.