Jim DeMint

“If you are a single-issue voter and your issue is liberty, then you have to be a Ron Paul supporter.”

“The reason the founders defined marriage as between a man and a woman is because it is the single most important institution for the continuation of the nation and the raising of children.”

“One of the reasons people have so much trouble with the Tea Party is it's not a top-down organization; it's a bottom-up phenomenon.”

“You can't be a fiscal conservative and not be a social conservative.”

“If an individual is not on the side of the people, he will not be on the side of the Lord.”

“What we need to do is to get the government out of the way, to have less regulation, to have lower taxes, and to let the private sector grow and create the jobs.”

“The primary role of government is to protect our liberties and our borders.”

“The goal is not to have a bigger government. The goal is to have a freer, more prosperous country.”

“We don't need to be raising the debt ceiling. We need to be cutting spending.”

“The Declaration of Independence is the promise; the Constitution is the fulfillment.”

“The conservative movement is a intellectual movement, and it's a movement of ideas.”

“No one is born a conservative or a liberal. You're not born a Democrat or a Republican. You're born an American.”

“The answer for America is not to become more like Europe. The answer for America is to become more like America.”