Rick Scott famous quotes

How many businesses do you know that want to cut their revenue in half? That's why the healthcare system won't change the healthcare system.
-- Rick Scott

#Cutting #Half #Want

My job is to get people back to work and make tough decisions. I've been willing to do it.
-- Rick Scott

#Jobs #People #Decision

There’s no question that mistakes were made and as CEO, I have to accept responsibility for those mistakes. I was focused on lowering costs and making the hospitals more efficient. I could have had more internal and external controls. I learned hard lessons and I’ve taken that lesson and it’s helped me become a better business person and a better leader.
-- Rick Scott

#Mistake #Taken #Responsibility

I don't like losing money. I don't go gamble. Because I don't want to lose any money. I didn't grow up with any money and I'm not going to go gamble and lose money.
-- Rick Scott

#Growing Up #Want #Losing

I know that you've got to watch how you spend all the dollars. That's not the easiest thing to do. That's not what people think is the most fun thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.
-- Rick Scott

#Fun #Thinking #People

I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake.
-- Rick Scott

#Mistake #Thinking #Stimulus

I think most people are not willing to make the tough choices.
-- Rick Scott

#Thinking #People #Choices

How much should the state be involved in regulating the growth in communities when you already have a county doing it, or a city doing it?
-- Rick Scott

#Cities #Community #Growth

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

#Jobs #Frustration #Small Business

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

#Careers #Politician #Mess

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

#Jobs #Believe #Vote

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

#Thinking #People #Typical

I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land.
-- Rick Scott

#Law #Land

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.
-- Rick Scott

#Citizens #Voters

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

#People #Want #Neighborhood

We ought to be bragging about Florida!
-- Rick Scott

#Florida #Bragging

It's a hard job to become president.
-- Rick Scott

#Jobs #President

I built private sector jobs all my life.
-- Rick Scott

#Jobs #Private Sector

I can't imagine anybody not wanting to make sure that noncitizens don't dilute legitimate U.S. citizens' vote.
-- Rick Scott

#Citizens #Vote #Imagine

I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.
-- Rick Scott

#Men #Navy #Firsts

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

#Believe #Principles #Healthcare

From my standpoint, I want to work with homeland security, justice to make sure that U.S. citizens' vote is not diluted.
-- Rick Scott

#Justice #Want #Citizens

I am absolutely convinced that Florida will become the most exciting place in the world to live and work.
-- Rick Scott

#Florida #World #Exciting

I try to be respectful of how other people think, I try to listen to what they're saying.
-- Rick Scott

#Thinking #People #Trying

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

#Taken #Leader #Lessons

Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation.
-- Rick Scott

#Jobs #Motivation #America

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.
-- Rick Scott

#Being Yourself #Acceptance #Sacred

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

#Party #Responsibility #Government

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.
-- Rick Scott

#Government #Self #Law

Set a goal, measure it, change if you need to, keep going after the goal,
-- Rick Scott

#Goal #Needs #Keep Going

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

#People #Drug #Study