Quotes from Rick Scott

Successful companies hire people.

Everybody that has a measurement, whether it's in teaching or whether it's in your job, you're always worried how you will be measured.

I want every health care professional, every first-responder, every citizen, every visitor to know that in Florida we continue to prepare for the worst. But we pray for the best.

My religion is very important to me.

I am very much opposed to forcing anyone to violate their conscience or their religious beliefs, and of course, I'm very much opposed to discrimination.

Washington, D.C., could learn a few budget lessons from Florida. The contrast between our state and the nation's capital is remarkable.

I love the 20 million people that live in my state and 100 million tourists.

Allowing casinos to operate without having races could result in the end of dog racing in Florida as we know it. Right now, greyhound racing is in many cases a money-losing proposition, but the dog tracks are forced to continue it because they have to have races in order to operate the lucrative casinos.

I had a mother that told me what to do all my life, and I traded that in for a wife. We got married two years out of high school which is not what you tell your kids to do, right?

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.

My goal, one-hundred percent, is to get individuals and companies to move to Florida.

Health-care costs when I got into the industry in '88 were 16 percent a year inflation. When I got out in 1997, they were less than 1 percent.

I don't think it's good in any business for anyone to have a monopoly. On the other hand, you need to have size to get costs down.

I am grateful for the lessons I learned from my parents' sacrifices. They often had trouble making ends meet, so we moved for them to find work. I remember my mom would sometimes take on second jobs, like ironing, just so we could buy groceries.

Jesus Christ is my savior.

The Miccosukee facility in Miami only offers bingo, poker, and video gambling machines. Because it does not have slot machines or table games, the Miccosukee tribe doesn't need an agreement with the state. The Miccosukees only answer to the federal government.

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

From a very young man, I learned the importance of believing in Jesus Christ, and I have all my life.

Donald Trump is a friend.

I support Donald Trump because I believe he's a businessperson that's going to get the economy going, but also he's going to focus on how we destroy ISIS.

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.

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

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

I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land.