Rick Scott Government Quotations

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.