Tim Scott Quotes


"We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't."
- Tim Scott
(Related: Government, Communism, Jobs)

"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."
- Tim Scott
(Related: Money)

"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."
- Tim Scott
(Related: People, Being, Conservative, Fact, Media, Republican, Talk)

"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."
- Tim Scott
"If our message reaches the kitchen tables, we are in good shape."
- Tim Scott
(Related: Kitchen)

"If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The government cannot create jobs. If the government could create jobs, then Communism would have worked. But didn't work. So what we have to do is allow the private sector and the entrepreneurial spirit to lead us back to a job-filled recovery."
- Tim Scott
(Related: Government, Work, Chance, Communism, Economy, Fact, Job, Jobs, Spirit)

"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."
- Tim Scott
(Related: Money, Country, Priorities)

"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."
- Tim Scott
(Related: Government, Progress, America, American, Now, Right)

"I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that America as a whole, we are now awake. We are looking at a political construct and we're fairly disappointed. I think the message is no matter where you come from in this country, there is great potential."
- Tim Scott
(Related: African, America, Country, Fact, Now, Potential, Republican)