Quotes By Rick Scott

We ought to be bragging about Florida!

What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.

I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

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

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I am absolutely convinced that Florida will become the most exciting place in the world to live and work.

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

I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake.

You've got to be known for what you're running on, what principles.

I've absolutely lived the American dream.

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.

Part of my job is to get out and talk to people. I do that as much as I can.

I believe that free-market principles will solve our healthcare problems.

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

I don't look at polls.

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.

Stimulus does not work.

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

I built private sector jobs all my life.