Jim DeMint Quotes

"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 need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business."

"We have a Category Five fiscal disaster with Social Security and Medicare and just like Katrina, it's predicted, it's inevitable, and in the case of these man-made disasters, we even know the date."

"I think we're going to create a system for these companies to compete for the best pre- and post-disaster warning and follow-up systems,"

"Meeting with tomorrow's leaders of Iraq was both an honor and an incredible experience, ... These are the guys that will be leading and making the decisions that will affect the future success of an Iraqi democracy."

"President Bush has demonstrated tremendous courage and resolve in the past year. He has been the decisive leader these times have required."

"This Congress cannot feed that hope, and I'm afraid that's what that amendment was doing."

"Ideas are more powerful than people."

"I fully support legal immigration and a temporary guest worker program, but I cannot endorse a proposal that rewards illegal immigrants with immediate legal status and a clear path to citizenship and voting rights."

"While the exact details of the trip are not released until after the fact due to security concerns,"

"appear to be the brainchild of a group that is afraid to tackle the real problems in the tax code."