Rick Scott Quotes

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

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

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  Topics in Business, Job

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

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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Comfortable

• 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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  Tags in Paid, Government, Programs

• 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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  Tags in Crime, Safe

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

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  Tags in Government, Involved

• We ought to be bragging about Florida

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

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  Tags in Taxpayers, Businessman

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

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  Tags in Studies, Welfare

• Stimulus does not work.

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

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  Tags in Review, Budget

• Prosperity comes from the private sector.

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

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  Topics in Job

  Tags in People, Part

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

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  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.

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  Topics in Job

  Tags in Florida

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

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  Topics in Decisions, Job, Work

• It’s a hard job to become president.

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  Tags in Hard, Become

• 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.

  Rick Scott

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  Tags in Said, Politician

• 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.

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  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Successful, Better

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

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  Tags in Believe, Vote, Plan

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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