Tim Scott Quotes

Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.

I'm more of a Tea Party person.

The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.

The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.

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

Today, grass-roots Republicans want to drink a bottle of 2010 small-government wine, but our candidates were bottled in another era, before the tea party's ideas took root.

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

I think the Republican Party is lost in terms of whether we should be stronger on the social issues or ignore the social issues. But I think the Rand Pauls, the Ted Cruzes, that's the future of the party.

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.

I was a Mitt Romney Republican because he was pro-business.

In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

You know, I'm a Republican, I'm a Conservative, I voted for George Bush.

The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.

The Republican Party has moved substantially to the right of where Reagan was.

Paul Ryan is a solid conservative.

I've got to say, I'm a Rand Paul fan.

The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government.

I'm a small government conservative.

Ted Cruz is a small-government conservative.

Mitt Romney has asked Todd Akin to step down. That's too bad. Todd Akin was the guy to lead the Republican Party into the 16th century.

So, a lot of my supporters back home are members of the Tea Party.

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