JIM DEMINT

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.

I'm a conservative first, and I believe that, if we do a better job of helping Americans understand what we're trying to do, to showcase every place in the country that our ideas are working at the state level, that that will help those at the federal level who want to carry those policies.

Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.

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

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.

Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.

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

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

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

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.

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

I don't have the support inside Washington or even inside my own party.

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.

I'm not a kingmaker.

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.

I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.

It has always been my plan not to serve more than two terms.

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.

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.

Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying.

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.

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'm never going to rule anything out in life, because most of what I'm doing now, I never intended to do.

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 don't even like playing a contentious role.