Jim DeMint Quotes

We have to make conservatism cool and exciting again.

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

I am a Libertarian Republican in the Goldwater style.

It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.

Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.

My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.

I just consider myself a Republican, none of this hyphenated stuff. I was a mainstream conservative Republican, and most people are in that category.

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

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

I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.

I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.

The only problem with Republican principles is no one's following them.

I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.

One of the most important things liberals don't understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism's various 'wings,' is that its tenets form a relatively organic base for its adherents, where 'traditional morality' serves the interests of laissez-faire economics and vice-versa.

I think the Republican Party is supposed to be the party of less government intrusion.

I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.

Republicans are not going to replace left wing social engineering with right wing engineering.

The Republican party should have learned its lesson -- that it must be a conservative party.

There are libertarian conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and social conservatives. I feel conservative in terms of limited government, individual responsibility, self-sufficiency - that sort of thing.

I eat and breathe small government and freedom.

I don't pass the Tea Party's purity test.