Thom Tillis

“One of the biggest disagreements between Sen. Hagan and I - I don't believe we should be building an economy that's founded on making ends meet on minimum wage. It's impossible; it's a stepping stone.”

“Senators should not play politics by threatening filibusters and evaluating Judge Gorsuch based on what his policy preferences are or how he might come down on a specific case that may come before the Court.”

“Anybody who doesn't support the Republican nominee... is a RINO.”

“Standing up for Israel at home validates those fundamental principles of freedom enshrined in our Constitution.”

“As Speaker of the North Carolina House, I've proven I'm a problem-solver, balancing budgets, cutting wasteful spending, and providing teachers with historic pay raises.”

“Change, while sometimes good, is difficult to absorb. I think that a part of it is just having to see the results.”

“One of the problems fundamental to health care in the United States is access and cost.”

“I've never seen anything that I didn't want to jump off of.”

“My Democratic colleagues should not forget that President Obama's Supreme Court nominees Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan were both given up or down votes by Republicans.”

“You have to make some hard decisions when you're speaker.”

“To indiscriminately cast all law enforcement as enemies of our communities is to engage in an attempt to divide our nation by turning Americans against each other.”

“The main opposition to Judge Gorsuch's confirmation comes from a handful of Democratic Senators who are using the playbook of far-left special interest groups, the same groups that routinely attack anyone who doesn't actively promote their agenda.”

“I'm for creating high-paying jobs.”

“It's good, sound business to treat all the teachers fairly, and I think it's a good story to tell.”

“We already have two branches of federal government that factor political considerations into their decision-making, and our Founding Fathers determined long ago that we don't need a third.”

“People bring up Willie Horton or some other political bombshell in the past, but what they're not being intellectually honest about is if we do not work on early release, if we do not rehabilitate 95 percent of the people who go into the prison system and come out, far more innocent people are going to be harmed.”

“Republicans should remember that when Trump campaigned, he wasn't holding up a conservative manifesto at every rally.”

“I have immense respect for Loretta Lynch both personally and professionally.”

“BDS is not a typical act of political correctness, undertaken by radical academics whose usual prey is the youth of America. This is a worldwide movement designed to destroy the one democracy in the Middle East and the hopes of people who have occupied that land for over three thousand years.”

“I want to create an economy where minimum wage is a very brief stepping stone to higher-paying jobs so people can realize their dreams.”