Quotes By Rick Scott

I don't look at polls.

I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.

I think most people are not willing to make the tough choices.

If you're going to be successful, you better have a goal, you better find really good people, better understand where all the money's coming from. And you better measure the living daylights out of it.

Stimulus does not work.

I built private sector jobs all my life.

Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home.

I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.

I don't like losing money. I don't go gamble. Because I don't want to lose any money. I didn't grow up with any money and I'm not going to go gamble and lose money.

I can't imagine anybody not wanting to make sure that noncitizens don't dilute legitimate U.S. citizens' vote.

I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.

You cannot go out and say, oh, I am going to raise all this spending, but it's not going to cost anybody any money.

It's a hard job to become president.

General revenue - what taxpayers are willing to give government, what they think is fair to give government - is not going to grow at the same amount that the federal government basically forces us to spend on Medicaid.

My job is to get people back to work and make tough decisions. I've been willing to do it.

From my standpoint, I want to work with homeland security, justice to make sure that U.S. citizens' vote is not diluted.

I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land.

Prosperity comes from the private sector.

We ought to be bragging about Florida!

You're not going to build private-sector jobs if you don't like business people.

I know that you've got to watch how you spend all the dollars. That's not the easiest thing to do. That's not what people think is the most fun thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.

Taxpayers need a businessman who knows how to create jobs, cut costs and balance budgets.

I try to be respectful of how other people think, I try to listen to what they're saying.

How much should the state be involved in regulating the growth in communities when you already have a county doing it, or a city doing it?

Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation.

You know, Floridians, we've paid into Social Security. Like a lot of other government programs, we sent money to D.C. We expect to get that money back. We expect that our Social Security is real. So, we have to fix Social Security.

You want people to feel comfortable to walk in their neighborhoods, go out and shop, do business.

If I believe your jobs plan, I'm going to vote for you.

You have got to make sure there's due process for somebody that's accused of a crime. You've got make sure they're safe.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.