Quotes from Francis X. Suarez

Don't tax more than you have to.

Americans are our greatest national resource and we need to invest in them through infrastructure, education, and a competitive tax system that rewards initiative and innovation while punishing irresponsible and destructive behavior.

While I don't claim to be an expert, I know this: Americans want a government that serves them, not any elite or clique.

There's a presupposition that income inequality has been brought by tech. It's not created by an industry, or a company.

We want to be one of the most crypto-forward and technological cities in the country. So we're looking at... creating a regulatory framework that makes us the easiest place in the United States to do business if you're doing it in cryptocurrencies.

From the integration of a new technological class to the expansion of fintech, medtech and greentech sectors, we believe the Miami movement has the potential to serve as a new model for the way we as cities develop our economy, expand our businesses and serve our residents.

Our role as a government is to bring this new technology into the proverbial sunshine so it becomes more accessible, more predictable and more productive for those who choose to participate.

Use technology to make everything run better.

Our city has already become the testing ground for innovations that will define the future.

In public service, not everybody's always going to agree.

I came from a family where public service and giving back was a prerequisite.

You know, every city in Florida is different.

We have more corporations in Florida than the next four states combined. Why is that? Because it's easy.

I do see very quickly a world where the satoshi system is what is used to make payments.

That immigrant energy, that desire to never fail under any circumstances, that desire to come to a country that opens its arms to everyone and gives them an opportunity to be successful in the future - that is quintessential Miami.

I realized I could be myself, and I wasn't going to pay a consequence for that, and that people liked me for who I am and not necessarily for the generic, sanitized version of myself. And that was very liberating for me and, frankly, a huge confidence boost.

Within tech, there's a subgroup of people that are pro crypto and pro blockchain. That's a very, very robust network and they're awesome.

We have a simple formula here in Miami. First, we want to reduce taxes to the lowest point possible. Second, we want to increase police funding, not decrease it. And third we want to have the best quality of life of any city in the world.

Throughout my life I have seen how local leaders more than anyone can improve people's lives.

We're working on making sure that our incentives are in place and that our legislation promotes crypto and blockchain and is forward-thinking. We want to make sure that we're creating as much of an equity framework from an educational perspective as we possibly can.

Republican senators such as Ben Sasse have championed smart, practical policies for working people that actually work.

We need to put our people first by building and investing in a workplace development pipeline.

Coronavirus has shown us how much we depend on one another.

You always worry about the devaluation of the dollar, but the devaluation of the dollar is based oftentimes on what the government decides to do.