Tim Scott Quotes
I was warmly embraced by the Tea Party. They openly seek more minorities.
Scott, Tim. Interview. NPR, 5 Nov. 2010.
On why he joined the Republican party:
Republican Party primary elections had become very contentious. The radical right and the Tea Party, though a minority of the party, had the power to destroy almost any Republican candidate’s chances. So those Republican political candidates were forced to pander to the extreme right and then try and backtrack to the center for the general election. As a result, few people believed the statements of Republican office seekers as no one knew what they really believed including members of their own party, Bush, no longer running for any political position, found himself with much more credibility and influence in the party than those who were running for office. The problem of appealing to party extremes was not unique to the Republicans at that time, but the degree and extent was unprecedented accounting for the distrust.
Vladimir Lenin. In this one respect Lenin was far ahead of the capitalist countries. He saw the importance of diversity in the national leadership. At the time, the only governing diversity in America and England, for example, was from which region of the country the White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestants came from. Ironically, under Stalin uniformity of view was so stringently demanded of Party Members, that diversity disappeared in Russia. In the U. S. and England however, various reform forces diversified the political party leadership with which these Democracies thrived.
There were some arch conservatives who saw pluralism and multiculturalism as a negative—something to be avoided. Some were white supremacists and others just felt that having a uniform national culture was better.
Timothy Eugene Scott is an American politician and businessman serving as the junior United States Senator for South Carolina since 2013. A Republican, Scott was appointed to the U.S. Senate by Governor Nikki Haley in 2013. He retained his seat after winning a special election in 2014 and was elected to a full term in 2016.
