Jim DeMint People Quotations

When you see people around the country who see things the same way you do, it will create a lot of energy, ... And believe me, you need energy at this point.

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

Ideas are more powerful than people.

If we're able to stop Obama on [health care reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him and we will show that we can, along with the American people, begin to push those freedom solutions that work in every area of our society.

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'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 believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

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.

Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.