Rick Scott Quotes

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Rick Scott

Profession : Politician

Birth : December 1, 1952

I believe - I clearly believe that government-run health care will be bad for you as a patient. It will be bad for you as a taxpayer.

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Quality health care services must be accessible and affordable for all - not just those in certain ZIP codes or tax brackets.

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In business, you learn from mistakes. In government, they never do.

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Students can spend their money better than government can. It should not require a federal loan and decades of debt for students to get a college degree. Price limits access - plain and simple.

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

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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.

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By raising the minimum wage in California, 700,000 people are going to lose their jobs. There are a lot of opportunities for companies to prosper in Florida and compete here, and that's what I'm going after.

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In Florida, we're the best melting pot in the world. We love everybody coming to our state.

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We ought to be bragging about Florida!

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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It's a hard job to become president.

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