Tim Scott
Tim Scott
Timothy Eugene "Tim" Scottis the junior United States Senator for South Carolina. A Republican, he joined the Senate in 2013 when South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley named him to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jim DeMint. Scott ran in a special election in 2014 for the final two years of DeMint's second term, and won the seat...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 September 1965
CityCharleston, SC
CountryUnited States of America
We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.
After watching the video, the senseless shooting and taking of Walter Scott's life was absolutely unnecessary and avoidable. My heart aches for the family and our North Charleston community. I will be watching this case closely.
I think the nation as a whole has a role in making sure that each individual, each citizen maximizes one's potential.
But the question we should ask ourselves is, who is the next visionary leader of America? How do we have the aspiration and inspire Americans to reach their highest level? We need a president that does so.
We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.
I see myself as a person who wants to serve the constituents within my district and find a way to move those who are not in our position philosophically to our position.
I'm very against this. Please don't do this.
Missy has just been phenomenal for us. We expected a great year from her and she's been outstanding. She leads us in almost every offensive category.
We do not have a revenue problem in D.C. or this county. We have a prioritization problem. When you create the priorities you fund the priorities of the country and you stop spending money when you get to zero.
Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the fact that I'm a black Republican and some people think of that as zany that a black person would be a conservative but to me what is zany is any person black, white, red, brown or yellow not being a conservative.
As a kid who failed out of high school as a freshman, I know firsthand and personally that sense of hopelessness and just being - drifting in the wrong direction, having really no hope. And being able to harness that frustration was incredibly valuable in my life. That's one of the reasons I focus so consistently on the foundation of education, because it helps to eviscerate those things that - unemployment, high jobless rates, poverty.
We do not have a revenue problem in D.C. or this county. We have a prioritization problem. When you create the priorities you fund the priorities of the country and you stop spending money when you get to zero.
The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope.
He (Floyd) said he had some discussions with Morton and wasn't able to get anywhere.