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Tim Scott

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 19, 1965

As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.

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I see myself as a person who wants to serve the constituents within my district and find a way to move those who are not in our position philosophically to our position.

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We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

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Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the fact that I'm a black Republican and some people think of that as zany that a black person would be a conservative but to me what is zany is any person black, white, red, brown or yellow not being a conservative.

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I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well.

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We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

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I think you hear, at least as an undertone, and it's going to grow louder, is that we believe that capitalism is the mantra of the day and anything that creeps towards socialism is a problem.

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And the Tea Party represents many of us who believe that we are taxed enough already. We believe in free markets.

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Our position should not be on how to eliminate the competition at all expenses, but we should focus on what we're going to do in order to make sure that Americans turn to the road of prosperity with the trajectory of capitalism, because making a profit is not an evil.

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There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets.

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There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference.

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I'm not looking to be dominating all the media outlets ... to talk about any issue just to be on TV, I'm not your guy. I'm not going to be 'the black Republican'. I'm going to be a Republican who happens to be black who will talk about issues that I'm passionate about that are specific to the agenda that I want to accomplish.

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Starting and feeding into the cultural war is absolutely unequivocally wrong for us as a nation and bad for the conservative movement.

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One thing without any question that is true today and that is that the winner of the 28-minute commercial is President Barack Obama.

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Is Romney a tea party candidate? I'd probably say that he's the least of the candidates running for president right now that would be considered a tea party candidate.

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I think when you look to the future what you'll find is that the Republican Party is building a bigger party base on stronger values.

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I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.

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I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.

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South Carolina is a great place to be from.

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As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.

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