Thom Tillis

“Democrats creating the expectation that judges should act as politicians in robes is a dangerous precedent to set, threatening the very independence of the judiciary.”

“You can't put a gun in the hands of someone who represents a danger to themselves or society.”

“In-person town halls generally require a commitment several weeks in advance - a commitment my office is not prepared to make given the full schedule of the Senate and the duties attendant to service there.”

“My dad would much rather work a couple jobs than be on government assistance.”

“A paperwork error can get you on the fly list. A name similar to someone else can get you on the fly list, so there's any number of opportunities where mistakes or abuses could probably put somebody in that horrible position of a government agency really clawing back your rights.”

“Let's be clear: the American people didn't give the GOP a stamp of approval or a mandate to ram through an ideologically-driven, far-right agenda.”

“I'm an organizational guy.”

“I've never listed my education degree as why people should vote for me. I think the average person is thinking more about what I've accomplished in my professional career and what I've accomplished in my career as a legislator.”

“I graduated from University of Maryland, 1996 - or '97, actually.”

“If we don't do a better job of getting illegal worker immigration policies in place, it's going to be a significant impediment to a number of industries.”

“In Washington, I will focus on creating a climate that helps create jobs and opportunities for Americans.”

“If the BDS Movement was isolated to a few tenured college outliers, that would be easy enough to handle. Unfortunately, it is not.”

“What I want to do is create jobs that make the minimum wage irrelevant.”

“The number-one defender of the Second Amendment rights is the National Rifle Association. The NRA works tirelessly to elect pro-Second Amendment candidates, and it fights fearlessly to win tough public policy battles and preserve those rights.”

“Democrats misinterpreted the mandate for change in 2008 as an ideological mandate to move the country sharply to the left. They rammed through policies like ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank with little, if any, bipartisan support.”

“I've actually got a Motley Crue channel on Pandora.”

“We need a Congress that understands the sanctity of life, the sanctity of traditional values, the sanctity of traditional marriage.”

“Their failures, both Obama's and Kay Hagan's, are obvious.”

“We don't classify all doctors as incompetent because of the infrequent instances of medical malpractice. We don't use the example of one bad teacher in our children's school to draw a negative conclusion of the entire teaching profession. We should apply that same rational standard when it comes to how we view law enforcement.”

“Dot Helms and North Carolina are one and the same.”