Zitat des Tages von Jim DeMint:
Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.
We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.
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.
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 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.
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 think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional, limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country.
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.
If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.
The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.
If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business.
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying.
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.
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.
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.
You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!
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.
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.
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.
If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.
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.
I don't even like playing a contentious role.
Marriage is a religious and state issue.
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.
First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.
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.
