Tim Scott in CPAC 2016-2019
On Education:
Kids, not unions, should be focus of our public education
My Opportunity Agenda understands the necessity of a good education. It believes that kids, not unions, should be the focus of our public education, that parents and not bureaucrats in Washington, should decide the path of their child's education.
They should be free to choose homeschooling, public schools, charter schools, parochial schools. It should be the parent's choice, because when the parents have the choice, the kids have a chance.
Source: Speech at 2014 CPAC convention
Mar 6, 2014
On Government Reform:
Look to Constitution for greatness, not to Executive Orders
America is about Americans and self-determination. We are not about the government. The greatest assets we have cannot be found here in Washington DC. They are found in the thoughts, and in the ideas of people. We do not find the greatness of America in
the Executive Orders of this president. We find them instead in the wisdom of our Founding Fathers and on the pages of our Constitution.A smaller, less intrusive government means more resources for the creation of the next generation of entrepreneurs.
The success of our economy is seen in the sizes of our ideas, not in the size of our tax bills. We need to cut our taxes, not raise them like President Obama wants to.
Greatness is created in relationships, when people pool
their resources together and start small businesses. Every place in this nation, in their garages, in coffee shops, and at their kitchen tables.
Source: Speech at 2014 CPAC convention
Mar 6, 2014
On Health Care:
I don't want to know how many calories are on my pizza
By limiting the government, we empower the people. We don't need the big government and ObamaCare choosing our doctors, do we? We don't need ObamaCare forcing pizza places to tell us how many calories are on our pizza, do we? Do we really want to know?
I'm not sure about you, but I don't want to know how many calories are on my pizza. When I eat my Haagen Dazs ice cream, I want to enjoy those 1,292 calories, and alllllll 100 grams of fat, in once sitting.
Source: Speech at 2014 CPAC convention
Mar 6, 2014
On Welfare & Poverty:
I flunked Civics & English but thought my way out of poverty
I started my small business, in a small apartment with some friends. I was a poor kid growing up in a single parent household. I was losing myself. I had lost my way. I flunked out of high school as a freshman. I failed World Geography, Civics. Now think
about that; a United States Senator who failed Civics. I used to think I was the only one, and when I became a member of the Senate, I realized that there might be a few more who didn't pass Civics either, and then I failed Spanish and English. Now, when
you fail Spanish AND English, they don't call you bi-lingual. Nope, they call you bi-ignorant, because you can't speak any language, and that's where I found myself.That why I give so much credit to [my mentor] John Monis, a Chick-Fil-A operator.
He came along at the right time. John Monise taught me that you can think your way out of poverty. That Citadel graduate taught me that if you really want to escape poverty, it comes through the power of education.
Source: Speech at 2014 CPAC convention
Mar 6, 2014
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