Jim DeMint

By the Obama Administration's own standards, its stimulus plan has failed spectacularly to create jobs.

The best job training programs are meaningless if there are no jobs available for their graduates.

I urge Republicans and Democrats in both Houses of Congress to seize this opportunity.

the liability of doing business in America seems to continue to increase, and periodic episodes like the National Labor Relations Board going after a company like Boeing just tell us that it appears that this Administration, and even this…

The economic policies of President Obama and Congressional Democrats are failing to revive our moribund economy.

The State Department's failure to issue a construction permit for the Keystone XL pipeline... is estimated to create over 13,000 high-wage manufacturing and construction jobs.

My question is about the environment you'll be working in, and whether or not you'll have the courage to speak up against some of the most anti-business policies I think we've ever seen in our country.

Somehow, we have to resolve this duplicity.

There is no excuse for this dismal job performance.

Why does President Obama have an obsession with raising taxes?

It is frustrating beyond words to see the excruciatingly slow progress in employment growth, especially while President Obama pursues policies that obstruct economic activity and job creation.

Since the late-breaking announcement on Sunday evening that Osama bin Laden had been killed, the Nation has been riveted by the valor and courage displayed by our troops that led to his demise.

It took years of painstaking work to create the pivotal moments when U.S. forces descended upon bin Laden's compound and flawlessly executed their mission making the world a much safer place.

This bill has not been vetted properly by a committee, and again, it undermines our whole system of the rule of law. So I am compelled to object.

the United States needs to deal very firmly, with strength and a lot of verification with other countries in the world.

The people who fomented change in Egypt, in Libya and Yemen, throughout many parts of the world back during the fall of the Soviet Union, did not do so to live under another dictatorship.

So I think the United States is at its best when we live our values and live our interests, try to influence others to meet our national security priorities, but not do so in a way that tries to impose upon other people what we believe.

We respectfully request that Ms. Aponte be removed from post as soon as possible, so that El Salvador may enjoy the benefits of having a better person as a government representative of your noble country.

U.N. peacekeeping missions must have more accountability--much more.

I think the advance of our vital national security interests, which include the values that we hold dear, is very important, but I absolutely believe that we cannot impose those values on other countries.

clarity of purpose is very important for us.

The United Nations has been unacceptably slow to reform.

I believe American taxpayers deserve more accountability for their dollars.

Programs that duplicate each other, and outdated mandates, must be streamlined, eliminated, and merged.

I don't think there's much, if any, disagreement in this room that not only will the administration demand results from the U.N. and from the administration itself, but this committee will demand results.