Thom Tillis Quotes

Whether it's their Sharia law and birther conspiracies or their unwillingness to buck Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge, the Tea Partiers have hijacked their party and carried it all the way to the right.

You do not compromise with the right wing of the Republican party.

The polarization of American politics is the proximate cause of the ongoing budget deficit…. Lately, the ideological center in Congress has thinned, and the distance between the parties has widened. Compromise has come to be seen as surrender—and the U. S. Government has all but come to a halt.

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

I'm a conservative Republican, and I'm not a member of the Tea Party Caucus, but I have very good friends that are.

I like that lady - Sarah Palin. She's great. I like the cut of her jib.

I'm pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican.

I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.

The Koch brothers, through the expenditure of billions of dollars and the creation and support of dozens of extreme right organizations, have taken fringe extremist ideas and made them mainstream within the Republican Party.

I think the danger with the liberal Left is seeing the Republican Party as a monolith.

The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.

The Republican Party is not inclusive.

Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.

Even if I was a Republican, George Bush would have pushed me out of that party.

As a partisan Republican, I am concerned by the fact that the John Birch Society has picked my party ... as a vehicle to promulgate its monolithic philosophy. There are three organizations in this country which give me grave doubts as a citizen: the Communist Party, the Ku Klux Klan, and the John Birch Society.

When you are working a Republican crowd, and want to throw out some red meat, you can’t do any better than jumping on Ted Kennedy.

In America you've got a one party state except that you've got two of them.

Republicans are so far out to the right, it's pushing people into the Democratic Party.

In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right.

What I have said is, when the American people elect divided government, what are they saying? I think they're saying we know you have differences of opinion on big things.

Trump was our last shot. I kind of thought it was Romney, and then lo and behold, like a miracle, Trump comes along. I still believe in Trumpism. I have no regrets for ferociously supporting him. What choice did we have?

I'm on the Trump team.

The Right has been damaged beyond belief by its embrace of Mr. Trump.

The idea that Americans are more divided than ever, entrenched in ideological camps and unwilling to meet in the middle, is so pervasive that one hardly goes a single hour without hearing about it on a cable news show.