Jim DeMint: “The economic policies of President Obama and congressional Democrats have failed.”

Absolutely not. We cannot shut the government down, regardless of what happens here.

My experience in business and politics tells me that most of the time when we're trying to solve problems we are actually treating symptoms.

I've had a chance to work with a lot of retail businesses. I've been in the marketing business most of my life.

we are on one side doing things that don't appear to address the true root causes of our problem.