Thom Tillis Quotes

Thom Tillis

Profession : Politician

Birth : August 30, 1960

We should refuse to settle for a deal that fails to secure the release of American hostages and paves Iran's path toward realizing its nuclear weapon ambitions.

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Federal dollars and resources come with so much red tape that state and local experts can't use that funding for initiatives that are working the best or are most needed.

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BDS is not a typical act of political correctness, undertaken by radical academics whose usual prey is the youth of America. This is a worldwide movement designed to destroy the one democracy in the Middle East and the hopes of people who have occupied that land for over three thousand years.

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Standing up for Israel at home validates those fundamental principles of freedom enshrined in our Constitution.

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If the BDS Movement was isolated to a few tenured college outliers, that would be easy enough to handle. Unfortunately, it is not.

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Republicans should remember that when Trump campaigned, he wasn't holding up a conservative manifesto at every rally.

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Democrats misinterpreted the mandate for change in 2008 as an ideological mandate to move the country sharply to the left. They rammed through policies like ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank with little, if any, bipartisan support.

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I resolve to work with my colleagues to succeed in producing the good rather than failing to produce the perfect.

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We owe it to the American people to set aside the areas where our ideology may prevent progress and find common ground where there are plenty of opportunities to produce good results.

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I think it has just been ingrained in me since an early age that the harder you worked, the more successful you were.

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I've been a paperboy, a short-order cook, a warehouse clerk, and, eventually, a partner at IBM.

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The Senate could use more people who had to sweat for a living and fewer of the politicians who made this mess.

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Greece has to stay in the euro.

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A Greek exit from the E.U. and the euro would mean the Greek economy would be difficult to sustain.

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When I was speaker in North Carolina, the state was gripped with a deficit, and we made a fundamental policy decision to adopt austerity budgets for four years.

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You're always going to have your detractors.

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If you just focus on producing good outcomes, all that other stuff sorts itself out.

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I want to create an economy where minimum wage is a very brief stepping stone to higher-paying jobs so people can realize their dreams.

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Dot Helms and North Carolina are one and the same.

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A paperwork error can get you on the fly list. A name similar to someone else can get you on the fly list, so there's any number of opportunities where mistakes or abuses could probably put somebody in that horrible position of a government agency really clawing back your rights.

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