“So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washi...” — Jim DeMint Quote

“So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.”

“If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.”

“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.”

“It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman, maybe, but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies.”

“My focus has been on being a good congressman, and there is so much other work to do.”

“As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.”