Thom Tillis Quotes

Thom Tillis

Profession : Politician

Birth : August 30, 1960

I strongly support the construction of the Keystone Pipeline and favor expanding offshore drilling to make our nation less dependent on foreign oil.

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In the Senate, I will work to shrink the size of our federal government to its core Constitutional role so the private sector can thrive.

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In Washington, I will focus on creating a climate that helps create jobs and opportunities for Americans.

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As Speaker of the North Carolina House, I've proven I'm a problem-solver, balancing budgets, cutting wasteful spending, and providing teachers with historic pay raises.

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We have to show respect for that woman who has cerebral palsy and had no choice in her condition, that needs help, and we should help.

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As the economy turns, one of the most significant impediments to economic growth is going to be labor availability.

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If we don't do a better job of getting illegal worker immigration policies in place, it's going to be a significant impediment to a number of industries.

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I've actually got a Motley Crue channel on Pandora.

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Any time you do tax reform, you really need to have a transition period.

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We don't need something as large and complex and costly as the Affordable Care Act, because it can't work.

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Republicans do need to communicate that we agree that there are serious health care issues among the American people that we need to solve.

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A focus on regulatory overreach, things that the benefit doesn't outweigh the cost, is probably the single greatest opportunity we have for having a positive impact on job creation.

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I was a partner at Pricewaterhouse before I got my four year degree.

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I graduated from University of Maryland, 1996 - or '97, actually.

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I'm an organizational guy.

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You will never satisfy the far extremes on the Left and the Right.

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I'm for creating high-paying jobs.

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In-person town halls generally require a commitment several weeks in advance - a commitment my office is not prepared to make given the full schedule of the Senate and the duties attendant to service there.

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People bring up Willie Horton or some other political bombshell in the past, but what they're not being intellectually honest about is if we do not work on early release, if we do not rehabilitate 95 percent of the people who go into the prison system and come out, far more innocent people are going to be harmed.

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We need to tell the far-right and the far-left to go away and have people in the center solve the problem.

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