Rick Scott Quotes

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

  Rick Scott

  Topics in Decisions, Job, Work

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

  Rick Scott

  Topics in Creation

  Tags in Policy

• 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.

  Rick Scott

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Florida

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

  Rick Scott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Studies, Welfare

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

  Rick Scott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Review, Budget

• Prosperity comes from the private sector.

  Rick Scott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Private

• Stimulus does not work.

  Rick Scott

  Topics in Work

• 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.

  Rick Scott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Paid, Government, Programs

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

  Rick Scott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Taxpayers, Businessman

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

  Rick Scott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Involved

• 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.

  Rick Scott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crime, Safe

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

  Rick Scott

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Comfortable

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

  Rick Scott

  Topics in Business, Job

• We ought to be bragging about Florida

  Rick Scott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bragging

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

  Rick Scott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Principals

Rick Scott (35)

Birth:	1st December, 1952
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Lawyer

About

Richard Lynn "Rick" Scott is a businessman and the 45th and current Governor of the U.S. state of Florida. He served in the U.S. Navy and then went into business. He earned a business degree and law degree and joined a Dallas firm where he became partner.

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