Rick Scott Quotations

My job is to make sure that if you're a family in Florida, your children can get a good education and you have the opportunity for a job. That's my job and that's what I think about every day.

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

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

Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I built private sector jobs all my life.

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

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

I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

In my case, I think people are surprised that I'm doing exactly what I said I was going to do when I ran, because that's not the typical politician.

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

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

It's a hard job to become president.

We ought to be bragging about Florida!

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

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.

There’s no question that mistakes were made and as CEO, I have to accept responsibility for those mistakes. I was focused on lowering costs and making the hospitals more efficient. I could have had more internal and external controls. I learned hard lessons and I’ve taken that lesson and it’s helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

Set a goal, measure it, change if you need to, keep going after the goal,

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

Government has no resources of its own. Government can only give to us what it has previously taken from us.

We've allowed our military to decay, and we project weakness on the international stage.

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.

How many businesses do you know that want to cut their revenue in half? That's why the healthcare system won't change the healthcare system.

It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It is at just such times that the constitutional right to self-defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach.