Thom Tillis actually said...

"The sooner you articulate what your funding levels are, the better, so that we can go and be advocates for it."

"We cannot have it both ways. We cannot on the one hand ask you to make people feel good about another priority that we want when we have not sufficiently resourced the priorities that we have already ..."

"You helped me save my time by making that same point, but it was a very important discussion."

"I think that if we are going to get to a point to where we are producing more resources to people who desperately need it, then we have to be open to a different way of addressing the needs."