Quotes from Francis X. Suarez

The coronavirus has paralyzed the world in a way most of us have never seen in our lifetime. It's chilling.

When one person has the ability to make one tweet and spiral the price of a particular asset at that level - you know, 10%-20% as opposed to 1% or 2% or 3%... You know, there's volatility in everything, there's volatility in commodities, there's volatility in dollars but not that kind of volatility.

I firmly believe that when and if Amazon and or Apple adopts bitcoin as a payment structure the dam will essentially break because at that point you're talking about a very high volume of transactions being able to use bitcoin.

There's a lot of people that will take the path of least resistance not to do something if a leader that they look up to isn't doing, or isn't advocating for it.

Every city in America and in the world should be trying to grow its technology ecosystem, period. Especially if they care about their children and their grandchildren.

Now, with Covid, I've realized that the entirety of government can be virtual. You can get to a point where you never have to walk into a government building again.

Sometimes it's better to have a big idea and push the envelope.

I don't know another way to try to deal with income inequality than actually having entrepreneurs and inventors creating the kind of jobs that allow your residents to be successful and provide for their families.

We want to make sure that nobody has an advantage over us based on laws that are easily changeable.

Certainly you can't just live in sort of a Pollyanna world where decisions don't have to be made, but I also fight back sometimes and maybe because I was the mayor's son, going back to that psychology. You know, you fight back a little bit of that, 'You have to do this and you have to be into this category; you have to support this.'

People want to be in a place where government is receptive and supportive of them. They want people to feel grateful for what they do in the community and in creating high-paying jobs, and they may not be getting that in the places where they've traditionally been.

Each and every life that has fled communism has proven how the will to pursue democracy and freedom, even in the face of oppression, can never be suppressed or silenced.

We've got to, in many ways, start thinking more like mayors who think about issues as problems that need to be solved as opposed to an issue through a specific ideological bent. Americans would be much better served and they'd be a lot happier with their elected officials.

Government shouldn't constantly be in our pocket.

Politics is a pendulum that swings constantly. It's really hard to say what's going to happen in four years or in two years or in one year.

Invest more in policing, not less.

We've been a city that, for many decades, has produced talent that we've lost to bigger cities. That's something we want to recapture.

Every time I would talk about crypto, my analytics would go through the roof. The analytics went crazy.

There are two basic things that people who are creating great companies want while simultaneously creating thriving communities: They don't want to be taxed any more than they have to, because they often know that that money is not being spent effectively. And secondly, they want to feel welcome.

My father became the first Cuban Mayor of Miami in 1985 when I was eight years old, so I got to see up close someone who immigrated to the U.S., was raised and educated up north, and then came down to Miami and struggled to get elected. It wasn't easy for him because he wasn't well known and there had never been a Cuban Mayor in Miami.

For people who invest in bitcoin, the allure is precisely that: It's not backed by a central government. So it's not manipulatable by central government.

I think, more than anything, Bitcoin presents an opportunity.

The president is expected to follow the rules just like everybody else.

When you get elected by 86% and you'd been in government as long as I had been, there was a sense I had a pretty good handle on things.