Tim Scott Quotes

And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation.

I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.

I believe in the principles of the Republican Party.

Well, look, I'm as Tea Party as it gets.

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.

As conservatives, we know our principles, and we also know the best ideas do not always come from Washington.

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.

We recommend a planned public relations and publicity campaign to position the Republican party as the defender of individual liberties against the encroachment of socialism, paternalism, and government control.

So the majority of Americans are conservatives. They believe in things like the Constitution. I know that's weird to some people but they believe in it.

'Staunch conservatives' and 'free marketeers' are fairly typical Republicans, while the 'American preservationists' are far less reliably a part of a GOP coalition.

Don't get me wrong, I am a proud Republican, and I want to support my party. I am a firm believer in the Republican principles of smaller government, low taxes and economic freedom. I have spent my time in government service fighting for these principles.

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

I'm a conservative. I believe in the idea of freedom and liberty, but more importantly, look at my voting background. I voted against bailing out Wall Street. I voted against, never voted for, a tax increase.

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

There's room in the Republican Party for anyone who wants to be a part of the values that we espouse when it comes to the role of government, free enterprise, free markets.

I said after 2006 that Republicans didn't just lose our majority, we lost our way. I mean, our party walked away from the principles that men in our national governing majority first in 1980 and again in 1994, and the American people walked away from us.

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.

Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.

I consider myself a Republican.

If we just go back to the basics... I do not want to give up our republic and become a socialistic ideological nation. That's not who we are.