Thom Tillis Quotes

Thom Tillis

Profession : Politician

Birth : August 30, 1960

Anytime ISIS takes ground, it's a bad thing.

Thom Tillis

I want to go to Washington and clean up Kay Hagan's mess.

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I am a U.S. senator from North Carolina. I'm worried about doing the business on the Capitol Hill. I'm not going to get into the parlor games and the political discussions about a separate and co-equal branch.

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Barack Obama and Kay Hagan think that the minimum wage needs to be the same in the mountains of North Carolina and in the city of Boston - it makes no sense to me.

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What I want to do is create jobs that make the minimum wage irrelevant.

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Instead of focusing on this sort of defeatist mentality where we've gotta up the minimum wage, why don't we focus on creating better-paying jobs?

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My Democratic colleagues, many of whom hold law degrees, should know better than to intentionally oversimplify court rulings to mislead the public and score political points.

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We already have two branches of federal government that factor political considerations into their decision-making, and our Founding Fathers determined long ago that we don't need a third.

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In politics, as in physics, every reaction is met with an equal and opposite reaction.

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Nothing could be more important for a child affected by Zika virus than to have continuity of care, seamlessly from before birth to after birth.

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I believe that what we should do first and foremost is seal the border. The Republicans and Democrats have both failed on this issue for decades. And one of the reasons why is I don't think we have stabilized the problem by taking credible steps to seal the border. Then let's discuss what we do with the population who is illegally present.

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We need a Congress that understands the sanctity of life, the sanctity of traditional values, the sanctity of traditional marriage.

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I've never listed my education degree as why people should vote for me. I think the average person is thinking more about what I've accomplished in my professional career and what I've accomplished in my career as a legislator.

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'Til such time that the U.S. produces a continuous supply of home-grown talent, I want U.S. visa programs that support people from abroad come into the country.

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We need to get back and make the agencies who are putting more burdens on businesses and employers and hardworking taxpayers and question whether or not there's a true benefit, and if there isn't, we must take steps to repeal them.

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What we have to do is find a way to divide and conquer the people who are on assistance.

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I think we've got a pretty good track record of definitively opposing Obamacare in the state of North Carolina.

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I think you should consider anything that frees up the market, that creates more jobs.

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Obamacare is a great idea that can't be paid for.

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Anybody who doesn't support the Republican nominee... is a RINO.

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