Tim Scott Quotes

If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

The Republican Party will never again be a majority party until we regain the confidence of the American people. I believe there is room for disagreement within the party, and we should not have litmus tests.

Political candidates are always looking to capture the future.

My advice to Republicans: Stop worrying about the 'Hispanic' vote. Focus on being true to your party platform, because the party that can deliver economic opportunity along with traditional family values will prevail with Hispanics - and most other Americans.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate.

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

The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don't stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don't rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls.

The GOP needs to figure out a way to become more appealing to new constituencies.

You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

The thing that Tea Parties have to understand, you can't govern if you don't get elected.

Too often, the Democratic Party has been split between its grass-roots activists on one side and its elected officials and party leaders on the other. It's important to remember: We need both wings to fly.

I'm fighting for the heart and soul of the Republican Party and I think if I win this campaign that people will take notice and the next time they select a candidate, they will look at the principles.

I am a conservative who happens to not be a Republican.

I think the Republican Party is supposed to be the party of less government intrusion.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

It does no good to be a conservative if you can't sell a conservative message in a general election.

To be a party you have to have a national message.

Traditional values is the last trump card the Republican party possesses.

Democrats need an organizer who will energize the grass-roots across this country to build the party from the bottom up.

I joined a Republican Party that was used to losing, used to being browbeaten by the Democrats. I represent a totally different style.

I think it's important that the Republican Party remain the home of conservatives and that the best way to advance conservative principles is to elect Republicans up and down the ballot.