“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
“I’d be worried about a massive economic slowdown. You know, the impact of Wall Street on Main Street, and I’d be worried about job losses.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”

Political Quotes

Tom Rice

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Tom Rice is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who has served as the U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 7th congressional district since 2013. Born on August 4, 1957, Rice has focused on issues such as economic development, job creation, and disaster recovery during his time in office. He has been involved in various legislative efforts to support the interests of his constituents in South Carolina, particularly in the areas of tourism and agriculture.

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Sep 18, 2013

I think our businesses can compete with anybody, but the government has got a noose of red tape around their neck.

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Sep 18, 2013

I do not think there is anything more important than job creation and economic development and you are right at the heart of it.

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Sep 18, 2013

I think one of the biggest problems that businesses face is uncertainty.

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Sep 9, 2013

I want to you stop that. I want to you change your mindset and start doing away with rules that are strangling our shipbuilding economy.

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Sep 9, 2013

I truly believe that our regulatory morass is strangling commerce in this country, and it will strangle our entire economy if we don't get it under control.

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Sep 9, 2013

I want to be talking about 1,000 American-flagged ships.

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Sep 9, 2013

It appears to me that with our excess of rules that we have choked off a valuable American industry in shipping.

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Sep 9, 2013

I want to figure out what we have got to do to change it to make us competitive again.

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Sep 9, 2013

I implore you, let's stop ruling these people to death, get off their backs and let them do their business.

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Sep 9, 2013

I think we need to have the number of rules going down every year.

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Sep 9, 2013

We desperately need jobs. We desperately need industry.

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Sep 9, 2013

You know, this just appears to me to be absolutely absurd.

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