Quotes from Jim DeMint

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Democrats have chosen not to defend the Marine Corps, but to pander to anti-war protesters and Berkeley officials that are actively trying to impede military recruitment.

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.

Marriage is a religious and state issue.

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.

A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.

From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.

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.

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.

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

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.

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

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'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.

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

Eliminating business taxes makes US best at manufacturing.

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.

Many Democrats are sincere in their desire to help others.

Freedom solutions - cross-state insurers; health cooperatives.