Quotes from Thom Tillis

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 think the best way to fight your detractors is to produce positive results and not think about them, but think about winning the hearts and minds of North Carolinians - or Americans - on good policy.

We don't need something as large and complex and costly as the Affordable Care Act, because it can't work.

I think you should consider anything that frees up the market, that creates more jobs.

Fort Bragg is an enormously important presence as the home to the 82nd Airborne and the Global Response Force of the XVIII Airborne Corps.

Federal dollars and resources come with so much red tape that state and local experts can't use that funding for initiatives that are working the best or are most needed.

We need to get back and make the agencies who are putting more burdens on businesses and employers and hardworking taxpayers and question whether or not there's a true benefit, and if there isn't, we must take steps to repeal them.

We owe it to the American people to set aside the areas where our ideology may prevent progress and find common ground where there are plenty of opportunities to produce good results.

I resolve to work with my colleagues to succeed in producing the good rather than failing to produce the perfect.

If you just focus on producing good outcomes, all that other stuff sorts itself out.

What we have to do is find a way to divide and conquer the people who are on assistance.

You will never satisfy the far extremes on the Left and the Right.

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

Fulfilling your promises is the easiest way to get elected, and breaking your promises is the easiest way to get fired.

I've always had the kinds of careers that have a tendency to go home with you.

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.

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

I'll be reaching across the aisle to find opportunities to work with Democrats on the issues that desperately need to be addressed.

In politics, as in physics, every reaction is met with an equal and opposite reaction.

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

Greece has to stay in the euro.

I think that you find out what your boss wants you to do, and you do more. To me, that's work ethic. Because, if you demonstrate that your capabilities extend past your current job, they'll probably give you a better job.

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.

In the Senate, I will work to shrink the size of our federal government to its core Constitutional role so the private sector can thrive.