Francis X. Suarez Quotes

Francis X. Suarez

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 6, 1977

The president is expected to follow the rules just like everybody else.

Francis X. Suarez

In public service, not everybody's always going to agree.

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The one constant in politics is change and things that are happening today are not happening tomorrow.

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My job as a mayor is to look 10, 15, 20 years into the future and think not just about my generation, but about my children's generation and my unborn grandchildren and think - what is the kind of economy that they're going to to inherit and what are we doing today to prepare ourselves for that?

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We have more corporations in Florida than the next four states combined. Why is that? Because it's easy.

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We're not a city that has normally relied on major corporations. It doesn't mean that we don't want to have major anchor tenant corporations in our city. We love to have them, but for whatever reason we've been a city that's been very entrepreneurial.

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Now, with Covid, I've realized that the entirety of government can be virtual. You can get to a point where you never have to walk into a government building again.

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Certainly, getting involved in politics and being a part of the solution to creating a great city, the opposite of what we had in Cuba, was a big part of our identity.

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Government shouldn't constantly be in our pocket.

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Use technology to make everything run better.

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Invest more in policing, not less.

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Don't tax more than you have to.

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We're going to be the first city in America to give a Bitcoin yield as a dividend directly to its residents.

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I do see very quickly a world where the satoshi system is what is used to make payments.

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We need for people to understand that... yes, we want you to hold bitcoin but we also want to increase the utility of bitcoin.

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I've never been shy about big ideas.

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When you get elected by 86% and you'd been in government as long as I had been, there was a sense I had a pretty good handle on things.

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Government has a limited amount of resources and a limited amount of ability to stop things that are market driven.

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Gentrification is real.

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For people who invest in bitcoin, the allure is precisely that: It's not backed by a central government. So it's not manipulatable by central government.

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