Jim DeMint Quotes

It's never a good time, when you're the president of the United States and your own party is finding lots of different ways to distance themselves from you.

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority.

In Washington, particularly, the loyal opposition has a job to be the opposition. But you can't stop there.

You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.

Everything about Washington is inconsistent, because they say one thing and do another, which is what my opponent, Claire McCaskill, is very, very good at.

Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington.

Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.

I cannot remember a time in opposition - I am talking about the last four years - when we have done less work on policy and more on slogans. But because of my European views I wasn't allowed to participate.

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

My position is unique in history. I have not a single supporter here.

Washington can be a very lonely place for Congressman and Senators. Many acquaintances almost all of whom want something and very few friends.

I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media.

House Speaker John Boehner has less sway over his caucus members than they have over him.

The last thing you want to do is go up against someone in your own party and certainly your own president.

Is it not hard that even those who are with us should be against us - that a man's enemies, in some degree, should be those of the same household of faith? Yet so it is.

There's this fight for the heart and soul of the Republican Party, and until that fight gets settled - because they're the majority - there's a lot of things that are pretty much on hold.

A lot of nasty things were said about me in my own party about my unwillingness to demand the government shutdown.

As the nation's attention turns from Washington politics to the Obamacare disaster, Democrats will have no choice but to reconsider our fair and reasonable proposals to delay the law.

There were many in the party that did not want me to run.

The Democratic Party has always been a party that is not known for its unanimity.

Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.

Do you think that I like to have to fight the leaders in my own party over this or that? Of course not. There's no joy in that. But John Kennedy may have said it best - sometimes my party asks too much.

The Republican Party is in a predicament that it made itself. It made its own bed, and now they don't want to lay in it.

And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself.

Donald Trump is a candidate who divided his own party more deeply than any presidential candidate has before.