Jim DeMint: “I have seen an unwillingness at the State Department to address seriously religious freedom and religious persecution…”

We cannot keep our country shut down. It's affecting people emotionally, as well as financially.

Certainly, the Federal Government needs to be an example everywhere we can.

His proposal was so outlandish, I don't think we should go back to the table until he puts something there that we can work with.

To paraphrase Ambassador Ryan Crocker, we need to be in the business of risk management, not risk avoidance.