Quotes About Jim DeMint

I have no plans to run for president.

The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.

Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.

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

I don't have many litmus tests, but this is one: Any candidate who doesn't understand that we need to balance the budget should not be president of the United States.

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.

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.