Tim Scott Quotes

• 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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• South Carolina is a great place to be from.

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• Obamacare. Get rid of it. Period.

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• If Strom Thurmond could get 30% of the black vote, any Republican can.

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• I believe Americans have a strong work ethic.

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• But in my life, the vast majority of people that have really afforded me the opportunity to succeed were white folks.

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• When I was in the 9th grade I was flunking out of high school. And that’s why I’m so encouraged by the fact that America is the place where opportunity and American exceptionalism is alive and well.

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• The first time that I was elected I was called the Judas Iscariot of the black community because I took a stand that was inconsistent of cutting across the grain.

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• I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn’t exist about America.

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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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• I just dove into the Scriptures and started memorizing different scriptures and started becoming as much as possible a part of the scripture. I wanted it to be grafted into my heart.

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• I have campaigned all over the state of South Carolina. It is the friendliest state in the country. And truly here people judge you by the content of your character not the color of your skin.

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• I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They may call you bi-ignorant because you can’t speak any language.

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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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• 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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• We do not have a revenue problem in D.C. or this county. We have a prioritization problem. When you create the priorities you fund the priorities of the country and you stop spending money when you get to zero.

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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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• 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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• The future of the Republican Party and the future of America is based on a values system and the issues that drive those values are on our side.

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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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Tim Scott (37)

Birth:	19th September, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Advisor, Politician

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